Using GitHub Pages

This is a presentation I gave to the ILRI, Kenya Research Methods Group about using GitHub Pages. The audience was non technical, so I tried to just give the basics, background on git, and pique interest.

Transcript

1. GITHUB PAGES USING GITHUB'S "PAGES" FEATURE TO HOST STATIC HTML SITES Alan Orth April, 2015
2. WHAT IS GIT? g i t is a distributed source code version control system.
3. WHY IS GIT? Obsoletes previous source code version control systems such as CVS and Subversion (SVN). Provides advanced features, for example: Distribution - Branching - Tagging - Staging - Stashing
4. DISTRIBUTED MODEL Each copy of a g i t repository contains the entire history of the repository.
5. LIGHTWEIGHT "BRANCHING" Branching allows you to create a copy of an object so modifications can be made in parallel (ie features, different devs, versions, etc).
6. GIT != GITHUB New users often get confused, but it is an important distinction! Just learn g i t !
7. WHAT IS GITHUB? Extremely popular website for hosting g i t repositories. Many others, but GitHub pefected the model.
8. WHY GITHUB? "Social code" Contributors - Pull requests - Issues - Forks - Wikis
9. WHY GITHUB? Gamification Stars - Streaks - Followers - Graphs
10. WHY GITHUB? Oh yeah, it's FREE!
11. HOW TO USE GITHUB PAGES 1. Sign up for a GitHub account 2. Create a new repository with an i n d e x . h t m l 3. Push code to the g h - p a g e s branch $ g h p ­ i m p o r t ­ p p r e s e n t a t i o n / Website is instantly accessible on https://username.github.io/repository
12. EXAMPLES Examples of websites hosted on GitHub Pages abound!
13. ;) This presentation!
14. (in progress!) data.ilri.org
15. Nairobi GNU/Linux Users Group blog