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Note that this exists in the master repo already, but that this is meant to start a Pull Request for a proper Review Process.

Author: Nick Yeates

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+## Title
+* Don't bother looking
+* Not looking for stuff internally 
+
+## Problem
+People don't bother looking for internally developed solutions - they might not find the repo at all or be aware of its existence.
+
+## Context
+* Software component(s) are available internally but users can't easily find these.
+* This problem is more likely to occur where there are silos in the company (e.g., larger companies; smaller companies may have fewer opportunities for reuse of internally developed software). 
+* The company traditionally has been bad at sharing across silos (people don't have the culture of sharing). 
+
+## Forces
+* No good internal search engine (or not connected to git repositories; and difficult to make this change happen)
+* Users may not know there are common places to find internally developed solutions.
+* People don't expect to find solutions internally.
+* Many silos in the company; difficult to reach the developer base across those silos (a communications problem).
+* People might not want to use internal SW because they don't believe it will be helpful
+    - might not be maintained
+    - might have poor reusability
+    - if someone put out a SW internally, the expectation is that they wouldn't have time to support it (vs. open source options)
+
+## Solution
+* Pull in Repo names, descriptions and README.md files into the search engine
+* Implement process change to first check for internal solutions for this problem
+* Tool with a central view (but people are more inclined to google externally than look internally)
+* Concierge service (guide) to help product people find stuff. Might not scale but could be helpful in the beginning.
+* Need some very visible lighthouse projects that start using inner source components and make positive statements about the inner source program.
+
+## Known instances
+
+## Desired Resulting Context
+* Internal components are easily visible
+* Developers looking for code can search for it and find it quickly.
+* Developers are now looking internally for software components
+* Search results are combined (internal and external)
+
+## Status
+Brainstormed pattern idea in progress
+
+## Authors
+* Georg Grutter
+* Erin Bank
+* Padma Sudarsan
+* Tim Yao