Building Software Together on GitHub

Slides from my presentation at the Chicago MySQL User Group Meetup on 20th November 2014

Transcript

1. Building Software Together on GitHub Arfon Smith @arfon Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License
4. What is a GitHub?
7. GitHub
8. Starts with you
9. You and your team
10. Getting bootstrapped
11. Reducing friction
16. script/bootstrap
17. script/server
18. script/cibuild
19. http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2005/10/getting_users_p.html
20. What is is like to be a new contributor?
23. Better at collaborating because they have to be
24. “open source is… reproducible by necessity” Fernando Perez http://blog.fperez.org/2013/11/an-ambitious-experiment-in-data-science.html
25. ‘Open Source’ way of working
26. “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
28. Open source collaborations Open Source vs Open Collaborations
29. Open source collaborations Open Source: the right to modify, not the right to contribute.
30. Open source collaborations Open Collaborations: a highly collaborative development process and are receptive to contributions of code, documentation, discussion, etc from anyone who shows competent interest.
31. Open source collaborations Open Collaborations: a highly collaborative development process and are receptive to contributions of code, documentation, discussion, etc from anyone who shows competent interest. THIS
32. What do open source collaborations do well?
33. Expose their collaborative process
34. How do 4000 people work together?
35. The pull request
43. discuss improve Code first, permission later
44. Every time this happens the community learns
49. Merged pull requests
52. (doesn’t have to mean this) Open Public? =
53. ‘Open Source’ way of working
54. Open (with your team, division or company)
55. Electronic & Available
56. Asynchronous, exposed process
57. Lock-free
58. Low friction collaboration
59. You, your team and a community
60. Why are you sharing?
61. GitHub is about helping people build software together
62. Three things we should all do on our projects
63. 1. Licence.txt
64. 2. README.md
65. 3. script/bootstrap
66. Thanks. arfon@github.com @arfon "