Pattern idea: Crossing the chasm

[MaineC]

On slack a presentation was shared on the adoption cycle for InnerSource: https://innersourcecommons.slack.com/archives/C04PXKRN4/p1636027720045600?thread_ts=1636027623.045400&cid=C04PXKRN4

This pull request is a first draft at providing a pattern for what InnerSource initiatives can do to reach teams and people at different places on the adoption curve.

ping @rrrutledge

[rrrutledge]

Neat! Will take a look maybe next week sometime.

[spier]

@MaineC thanks for pushing this idea from the slack conversation more into the open.

The pattern would be a lot easier to understand if the reader could see the adoption curve and resulting chasms visually (such visuals are referenced in the Slack thread).

Do you think we should try to contact the original author, to see if we would be able to use those visuals and also reference them as a known instance? Of course it would also be great if the author could review this pattern draft, to make sure that we are capturing the ideas correctly.

[MaineC]

@spier First of all thank for filling in the references to existing patterns - I pushed the draft before fixing those todos ...

I agree with you that the patterns would be easier to understand if it used the visuals we had in the slack conversation from the talk. The visuals in the talk themselves actually are older coming from a book that is still on my (way too high) pile of books to read:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61329.Crossing_the_Chasm

It would be awesome to have the original author of the slides engage here. I haven't seen them active on Slack (maybe I have missed that), but I'll get in touch with them through e-mail.

Thanks for the early review.

[spier]

@MaineC are you open to merging this pattern relatively quickly, so that it becomes easier for readers to discover this pattern idea?

We can and should still improve the pattern in subsequent PRs.
And of course if we could get other people involved that would be awesome too.

[MaineC]

I think given that all conversations are resolved we should merge this pattern to make it visible to others. We can improve it going forward from there.

[spier]

Sounds good. Done!

FYI I will also add a link to the pattern from the main README, so that people can more easily find it.