Building Successful GitHub Communities

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1. Building Successful GitHub Communities 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
13. script/bootstrap
14. script/server
15. script/cibuild
16. http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2005/10/getting_users_p.html
17. What is is like to be a new contributor?
20. Better at collaborating because they have to be
21. “open source is… reproducible by necessity” Fernando Perez http://blog.fperez.org/2013/11/an-ambitious-experiment-in-data-science.html
22. ‘Open Source’ way of working
23. “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
25. Open Public ≠
26. Open (within your team, department or institution)
27. Electronic
28. Available
29. Asynchronous, exposed process
30. Lock-free
31. Low friction collaboration
32. You, your team and a community
33. Why are you sharing?
34. GitHub is about helping people build software together
35. The pull request
40. Code first, permission later
44. Merged pull requests
51. What’s happening today?
52. Collaborative authoring
55. Collaborative teaching
59. Collaborative data collection
62. Collaboration around code
63. Astropy: astronomy
69. CMS-SW: particle physics
72. Towards Collaborative Versioned Science
73. “publishing a paper about code is basically just advertising” David Donoho http://www.stanford.edu/~vcs/Video.html
74. Reproducibility Computational
75. What if all research was like this?
76. script/server script/bootstrap script/cibuild
77. README.md == paper
78. “Academic environments of today do not reward tool builders” Ed Lazowska, OSTP event http://lazowska.cs.washington.edu/MS/MS.OSTP.pdf
79. Three things we can do today
80. 1. README.md
81. 2. Licence.txt
82. 3. script/bootstrap
83. Thanks. arfon@github.com @arfon "