GitHub for More than Code

It's no secret that at GitHub, we use GitHub to write the code that runs GitHub. But what you may not know is that we also use GitHub to manage GitHub the company. In this talk, I'll show you practical ways that we use our own system in a non-code context. You'll learn how we track projects and to-do lists, discuss and collaborate on corporate policies, communicate news to a highly distributed company, coordinate events, update and collaborate on internal and external documentation, and even onboard new employees. You'll come away from this talk with a whole new perspective on using GitHub.

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1. for more than code Elizabeth Naramore SkiPHP • January 17, 2014
2. Hi, I’m Elizabeth.
3. Using old tools for new tricks…
4. …to solve old problems.
5. Old : New : Old
6. Repos
7. Growing pains
8. Pain 1: Discussions were in Inboxes.
10. Pain 2: Information was difficult to collect.
12. Pain 3: We were using spreadsheets.
14. Pain 4: Tasks were getting lost.
16. Pain 5: We had no metrics.
18. Pain 6: Lots of manual labor.
20. How can we find solutions?
22. Sponsorship Repo
23. http://community.github.com
24. GitHub API
25. • Tutorials/Development Guides • Basic API Documentation • Sample Code • Libraries • Support http://developer.github.com
26. Every request is an issue.
41. http://hubot.github.com
42. Sponsorship Repo Available Tickets Repo
43. Sponsorship Repo Available Tickets Repo Speaking Opps Repo
44. Sponsorship Repo Available Tickets Repo Speaking Opps Repo OctoBooth Repo
45. Sponsorship Repo Available Tickets Repo Speaking Opps Repo OctoBooth Repo Print Requests Repo
46. Sponsorship Repo Available Tickets Repo Speaking Opps Repo OctoBooth Repo Print Requests Repo • Support Tickets ! !
47. Sponsorship Repo Available Tickets Repo Speaking Opps Repo OctoBooth Repo Print Requests Repo • Support Tickets • Swag Requests !
48. Sponsorship Repo Available Tickets Repo Speaking Opps Repo OctoBooth Repo Print Requests Repo • Support Tickets • Swag Requests • Drinkup Plans
49. Sponsorship Repo Available Tickets Repo Speaking Opps Repo OctoBooth Repo Print Requests Repo • Support Tickets • Swag Requests • Drinkup Plans • Buddy Travel
50. What else?
51. Onboarding
52. User Experience Studies
53. Policy Conversations
54. Finance
55. Internal, External, and Project-Specific Documentation
56. Officey Things
57. Coordinating HackHouses
58. Legal
59. Employee Stuff for Sale
60. Toasts
61. That’s great, Elizabeth, but what about the rest of the world?
62. Government /SFMOCI/openlaw /unitedstates/glossary /CityOfPhiladelphia/phl-policecomplaint-data /Chicago/osd-bike-racks ! ! ! !
63. Science /cpfaff/Open-Science-Paper /CenterForOpenScience/Policies-and-Procedures ! !
64. Authors /manuelkiessling/NodeBeginnerBook /progit/progit /addyosmani/backbone-fundamentals ! ! !
65. https://github.com/thedaniel/xl600
66. https://github.com/rosannaf/knitting-patterns
67. https://github.com/sinker/tacofancy
68. https://github.com/frabcus/house (this is not frabcus’s house.)
69. Remember: the tools in your toolbox are awesome.
70. Get to know them.
71. Old : New : Old
72. https://joind.in/10414