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Add Aerospace Corporation as Known Instance for InnerSource Hackathon#899

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Add Aerospace Corporation as Known Instance for InnerSource Hackathon#899
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About the Known Instance

The Aerospace Corporation is an FFRDC (Federally Funded Research and Development Center) where developers charge time to government contracts. This makes InnerSource adoption especially challenging — if it's not part of the funded tasking, it doesn't happen.

Their software best practices team organized a hybrid "contribfest" (virtual + in-person in El Segundo, CA) with these results:

  • 31 participants across 21 departments
  • 15 tickets closed during or shortly after the event
  • A developer contributed a feature back to an internal library instead of forking it — directly solving the "fork storm" problem
  • 2/3 of participants had never heard of InnerSource before
  • 100% of survey respondents agreed InnerSource would positively impact development
  • Documentation site traffic nearly doubled in the following month

Test plan

  • Verify the YouTube link resolves correctly
  • Review the Known Instance description for accuracy against the source talk
  • Confirm formatting matches the style of other Known Instances in the repo

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…thon

Add detailed Known Instance based on their InnerSource contribfest
presented at InnerSource Commons Summit 2024 by Tren Baumgarten and
Caroline Jones. Their experience validates the pattern in a
contract-based organization (FFRDC) with 31 participants across 21
departments, 15 tickets closed, and strong post-event engagement.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…athon pattern

Add The Aerospace Corporation as a second Known Instance based on their
InnerSource contribution festival presented at InnerSource Commons
Summit 2024 by Tren Baumgarten and Caroline Jones.

Also enhance the pattern content to meet Level 2 (Structured) requirements:
- Rewrite patlet to two-sentence problem/solution format
- Restructure Solution with Preparation, Participation, and Event Format sections
- Add Related Patterns section
- Add context about contract-based organizations
- Fix grammar and address Vale spelling issues
- Update status to Structured

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
@rrrutledge rrrutledge force-pushed the add-aerospace-known-instance branch from 788a7d2 to ac6b2a4 Compare April 7, 2026 02:25
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