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Improve grammar and sentence structure of Thales hackathon entry
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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* **IKEA** (Ingka Group)
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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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* **Thales Group** - The annual Thales I/O Days event combines a fully remote, two-day hackathon with an in-person conference and award ceremony open to all job families, not just engineering. The hackathon is designed for engineers new to InnerSource, offering a structured, low-risk environment to contribute to real internal platforms alongside experienced practitioners on the corporate software factory (GitLab-based). The in-person conference and awards ceremony broaden InnerSource awareness beyond software development, drawing attendance from managers and non-engineering staff such as those in procurement and hardware engineering. 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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