contributing to projects managed by another team, or to and management of the code easier. In several other firms, open source projects themselves, is a full time assignment. there are dedicated inner source teams focused on making internal repositories more open and widely promoting code In our interviews, we learned of a variety of approaches to reuse across areas of the, often siloed, organizations. inner source. For example, in one large investment bank, they are beginning to encourage more inner source activities, but FIGURE 26 shows that respondents identified several areas there is no central push for this. That bank’s current focus for their organizations to focus their efforts on to increase is on internal collaboration around small components with contribution, demonstrating that there is no shortage of minimal dependencies, as this makes the overall collaboration improvements to make. FIGURE 26 How organizations can increase their level of open source contribution My organization's contribution to OSS would increase if it focused investment or effort on: Allocating employee time for 2%3% 15% 35% 44% open source contributions Organization-wide education 3%3% 15% 36% 43% on the value proposition Providing clearer 3%3% 20% 33% 41% policies to employees Funding open source projects 1% 5% 15% 39% 40% Open sourcing its own 5% 7% 15% 35% 38% products or internal tools Getting involved in industry or 1%4% 26% 36% 32% government policymaking Strongly disagree Somewhat disagree Neither agree nor disagree Somewhat agree Strongly agree 2022 FINOS STATE OF OSS IN FINANCIAL SERVICES SURVEY, Q28, SAMPLE SIZE = 186-191, DKNS EXCLUDED THE 2022 STATE OF OPEN SOURCE IN FINANCIAL SERVICES 34