Building Software Together on GitHub

Slides from the Software Sustainability Institute's Collaboration Workshop (2014) http://www.software.ac.uk/cw14

1. Building Software Together on GitHub Arfon Smith @arfon Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License http://is.gd/nsfsi2
2. What is a GitHub?
5. GitHub
6. Starts with you
7. You and your team
8. Getting bootstrapped
9. Reducing friction
14. script/bootstrap
15. script/server
16. script/cibuild
17. http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2005/10/getting_users_p.html
18. What is is like to be a new contributor?
21. Better at collaborating because they have to be
22. “open source is… reproducible by necessity” Fernando Perez http://blog.fperez.org/2013/11/an-ambitious-experiment-in-data-science.html
23. ‘Open Source’ way of working
24. “Open source software is software that can be freely used, modified, and shared (in both modified and unmodified form) by anyone. Today the concept of "open source" is often extended beyond software, to represent a philosophy of collaboration in which working materials are made available online for anyone to fork, modify, discuss, and contribute to.” https://help.github.com/articles/github-glossary#open-source
26. (doesn’t have to mean this) Open Public? =
27. Open (within your team, department or institution)
28. Electronic
29. Available
30. Asynchronous, exposed process
31. Lock-free
32. Low friction collaboration
33. You, your team and a community
34. Why are you sharing?
35. GitHub is about helping people build software together
36. The pull request
41. Code first, permission later
45. Merged pull requests
52. What’s happening today?
57. Towards Collaborative Versioned Science
58. “publishing a paper about code is basically just advertising” David Donoho http://www.stanford.edu/~vcs/Video.html
59. Reproducibility Computational
60. What if all research was like this?
61. script/server script/bootstrap script/cibuild
62. README.md == paper
63. “Academic environments of today do not reward tool builders” Ed Lazowska, OSTP event http://lazowska.cs.washington.edu/MS/MS.OSTP.pdf
64. Three things we can do today
65. 1. Licence.txt
66. 2. README.md
67. 3. script/bootstrap
68. Thanks. arfon@github.com @arfon "