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refactor: Make clear call-out for dedicated leadership
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michael-basil authored Jan 6, 2025
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Circle Communities for InnerSource provide a collaborative forum that connects isolated innovators and innovation teams, enabling them to support each other in addressing bespoke challenges while aligning practices with InnerSource principles. Key elements of this solution include:

* **Principle-Centered Facilitation**: Semi-dedicated leaders and community members ensure that meetings embody openness, transparency, prioritized mentorship, and voluntary contribution. They guide discussions to connect practices and patterns back to these principles, helping participants move forward with their initiatives and challenges.
* **Principle-Centered Facilitation**: Dedicated leaders and community members ensure that meetings embody openness, transparency, prioritized mentorship, and voluntary contribution. They guide discussions to connect practices and patterns back to these principles, helping participants move forward with their initiatives and challenges.
* **Building Connections Across Silos**: Meetings prioritize creating connections among isolated innovators and innovation teams who may be unaware of parallel efforts in the organization. These connections foster mutual support and shared learning to address bespoke challenges collaboratively.
* **Meeting Participants Where They Are**: Each meeting addresses the needs of attendees, focusing on helping newcomers and recurring participants get unstuck, clarify their understanding of InnerSource principles, and tackle specific challenges they encounter.
* **Support for Mindset Shifts**: Conversations foster mindset changes necessary for InnerSource success, such as cultivating openness, addressing barriers to transparency, and encouraging voluntary contributions and mentorship behaviors.
* **Flexible Meeting Flow**: Meetings are not prescriptive presentations. Instead, they provide a space for attendees to explore challenges, ask questions, and share early curiosity or struggles, with discussions anchored in InnerSource principles.
* **Agreed Meeting Agenda**: Each meeting’s agenda is collaboratively decided by the group, ensuring productivity and relevance. In cases where consensus is not reached, decisions defer to the (semi-)dedicated leaders for guidance and facilitation.
* **Agreed Meeting Agenda**: Each meeting’s agenda is collaboratively decided by the group, ensuring productivity and relevance. In cases where consensus is not reached, decisions defer to the dedicated leaders for guidance and facilitation.
* **Real-World Examples**: Participants are encouraged to share specific examples of successes and challenges in applying InnerSource principles, providing practical learning opportunities for the community.
* **Knowledge Sharing and Best Practices**: Discussions include reviewing best practices such as how to promote openness in code review, establish transparent governance, or mentor contributors effectively.

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