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Address PR feedback from Marius on Thales Known Instances
- Fix "Tales I Days" typo -> "Thales I/O Days" in hackathon and praise-participants - Clarify hackathon entry: full remote 2-day hackathon + in-person conference, awards open to all job families - Remove "at no cost" from innersource-license Thales entry Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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## Known Instances
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* **IKEA** (Ingka Group)
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* **Thales Group** integrates a hackathon into their annual "Tales I Days" — a full-day, in-person event combining conference talks, a formal awards ceremony for top contributors, and a hands-on hackathon on the corporate software factory (GitLab-based). The hackathon is specifically designed for engineers new to InnerSource, giving them a structured, low-risk environment to practice on real internal platforms alongside experienced practitioners. Managers and non-engineering staff such as procurement and hardware engineers also attend the conference portion, broadening InnerSource awareness beyond software development. See: [Why People Matter Most: Building a Sustainable InnerSource Strategy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0dx84lUDYY) (InnerSource Commons, 2026, by Marius Moulis).
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* **Thales Group** - Thales I/O Days combine a full remote 2-day Hackathon and an annual in-person conference with an award ceremony open to all job families, not only engineering. The hackathon is specifically designed for engineers new to InnerSource, giving them a structured, low-risk environment to practice on real internal platforms alongside experienced practitioners on the corporate software factory (GitLab-based). The in-person conference and awards portion broadens InnerSource awareness beyond software development, with attendance from managers and non-engineering staff such as procurement and hardware engineers. See: [Why People Matter Most: Building a Sustainable InnerSource Strategy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0dx84lUDYY) (InnerSource Commons, 2026, by Marius Moulis).
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* **The Aerospace Corporation** organized an internal InnerSource contribution festival inspired by open source contribution festivals at conferences like KubeCon/CloudNativeCon. Aerospace is a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) where developers charge time to government contracts, making InnerSource adoption especially challenging because work not embedded in funded tasking does not happen. The event was organized by a software best practices team and held as a hybrid event (virtual and in-person in El Segundo, California). They secured dedicated funding so that all 31 participants across 21 departments could charge their time to the event. Tasks were prepared with project maintainers, documented with clear definitions of done and impact statements, and organized on task boards. At least one maintainer from every participating project was available for Q&A throughout the day. During and shortly after the event, 15 tickets were closed. Notably, one developer used the event to contribute a feature he needed back to an internal library rather than forking it — a direct demonstration of InnerSource solving the "fork storm" problem the company had been experiencing. Two-thirds of participants had never heard of InnerSource before the event, yet 100% of survey respondents agreed that InnerSource would have a positive impact on development and wanted to participate in a future event. Traffic to the company's internal documentation site nearly doubled in the month following the event. See: [Kickstarting InnerSource with a Contribfest](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5KeCHFbnWA) (InnerSource Commons Summit 2025 talk by Trin Baumgarten and Caroline T Jones).
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Thales Group created a framework of four ready-to-use InnerSource licenses, developed in close collaboration with legal partners. The licenses are made available to any InnerSource participant within the group at no cost — removing the per-project negotiation overhead that would otherwise slow code sharing across Thales's many business lines and global entities. The legal framework is one of two foundational pillars of the Thales InnerSource strategy, complementing the technical enabler (a corporate software factory based on GitLab). See: [Why People Matter Most: Building a Sustainable InnerSource Strategy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0dx84lUDYY) (InnerSource Commons, 2026, by Marius Moulis).
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Thales Group created a framework of four ready-to-use InnerSource licenses, developed in close collaboration with legal partners. The licenses are made available to any InnerSource participant within the group, removing the per-project negotiation overhead that would otherwise slow code sharing across Thales's many business lines and global entities. The legal framework is one of two foundational pillars of the Thales InnerSource strategy, complementing the technical enabler (a corporate software factory based on GitLab). See: [Why People Matter Most: Building a Sustainable InnerSource Strategy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0dx84lUDYY) (InnerSource Commons, 2026, by Marius Moulis).
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* **Nike** (multiple projects)
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* **SAP** - InnerSource initiatives like the Dojo and Everest projects are elevated by the 'Praise Participants' pattern, where the SAP Appreciate program plays a key role in fostering a culture of gratitude and recognition, driving innovation and collaboration to new heights. See: [InnerSource: First Contribution Explored](https://community.sap.com/t5/open-source-blogs/innersource-first-contribution-explored/ba-p/13644916)
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* **Siemens** awards successful InnerSource projects and contributors at their yearly internal InnerSource Summit.
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* **Thales Group** - The Thales ISPO explicitly applies this pattern organization-wide, calling out contributors in the moment and amplifying recognition at the annual "Tales I/O Days" event, where top contributors and community advocates across InnerSource and open source receive formal awards. Thales also extended the pattern by tying InnerSource contribution to the expert career path as proof of leadership and expertise. See: [Why People Matter Most: Building a Sustainable InnerSource Strategy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0dx84lUDYY) (InnerSource Commons, 2026, by Marius Moulis).
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* **Thales Group** - The Thales ISPO explicitly applies this pattern organization-wide, calling out contributors in the moment and amplifying recognition at the annual "Thales I/O Days" event, where top contributors and community advocates across InnerSource and open source receive formal awards. Thales also extended the pattern by tying InnerSource contribution to the expert career path as proof of leadership and expertise. See: [Why People Matter Most: Building a Sustainable InnerSource Strategy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0dx84lUDYY) (InnerSource Commons, 2026, by Marius Moulis).
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