Ep. 170 Building developer communities with Codu Founder Niall Maher

The MongoDB Podcast

In this episode, we meet Niall Maher and talk about InnerSource, which is a software development strategy that applies open source practices to proprietary code. InnerSource can help establish an open source culture within an organization while retaining software for internal use. In addition to discussing innersource, we’ll also hear about building communities. Niall is the founder of Codu, a supportive community space for coders and developers that’s going from strength to strength

Listen for:

• [02:55 - 04:26] Who Marsh McLennan is and what they do
• [04:32 - 07:19] What is InnerSource?
• [11:45 - 14:21] Niall's journey to Marsh McLennan
• [14:34 - 19:03] The impact of Codu's community, and how to get involved
• [19:45 - 23:47] Managing and growing the community
• [24:14 - 26:45] What's involved in the community and the collaboration that comes out of it
• [28:36 - 34:15] Can and will AI actually do everything for us?
• [40:44 - 43:20] Where Codu is headed in the future
• [46:11 - 47:54] Advice for building a community