You can nurture and grow a highly impactful open-source project in your organization by systematically building an excellent team, technology, and product.
It is challenging to build successful open-source teams inside traditional and large organizations. This challenge stems from major differences between organizational processes, business goals, and the personal career goals of the people involved. In this case, your task as an engineering leader would be to harmonize these different forces and build a thriving team.
Getting started on this journey may seem an intimidating task. Tolstoy famously wrote, “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”