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 SunshinePHP • February 8, 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. • Notifications (starring, watching) • Gists (editing, starring, sharing) • Issues (list, create, edit, close) • Markdown rendering • Search (repos, code, issues, users) Just A Few Examples…
27. • Pull Requests (list, update, check status of a commit, merge) • Pull Request Comments (edit, read, delete, create) • Repositories (create, list, edit, list contributors, list countries) Just A Few Examples…
28. • Users (update profile, get follower info) • Emojis Just A Few Examples…
29. https://github.com/KnpLabs/php-github-api PHP GitHub API Client
30. Every request is an issue.
45. http://hubot.github.com
46. Sponsorship Repo Available Tickets Repo
47. Sponsorship Repo Available Tickets Repo Speaking Opps Repo
48. Sponsorship Repo Available Tickets Repo Speaking Opps Repo OctoBooth Repo
49. Sponsorship Repo Available Tickets Repo Speaking Opps Repo OctoBooth Repo Print Requests Repo
50. Sponsorship Repo Available Tickets Repo Speaking Opps Repo OctoBooth Repo Print Requests Repo • Support Tickets ! !
51. Sponsorship Repo Available Tickets Repo Speaking Opps Repo OctoBooth Repo Print Requests Repo • Support Tickets • Swag Requests !
52. Sponsorship Repo Available Tickets Repo Speaking Opps Repo OctoBooth Repo Print Requests Repo • Support Tickets • Swag Requests • Drinkup Plans
53. Sponsorship Repo Available Tickets Repo Speaking Opps Repo OctoBooth Repo Print Requests Repo • Support Tickets • Swag Requests • Drinkup Plans • Buddy Travel
54. What else?
55. Onboarding
56. User Experience Studies
57. Policy Conversations
58. Finance
59. Internal, External, and Project-Specific Documentation
60. Officey Things
61. Coordinating HackHouses
62. Legal
63. Employee Stuff for Sale
64. Toasts
65. That’s great, Elizabeth, but what about the rest of the world?
66. Government /SFMOCI/openlaw /unitedstates/glossary /CityOfPhiladelphia/phl-policecomplaint-data /Chicago/osd-bike-racks ! ! ! !
67. Science /cpfaff/Open-Science-Paper /CenterForOpenScience/Policies-and-Procedures ! !
68. Authors /manuelkiessling/NodeBeginnerBook /progit/progit /addyosmani/backbone-fundamentals ! ! !
69. https://github.com/thedaniel/xl600
70. https://github.com/rosannaf/knitting-patterns
71. https://github.com/sinker/tacofancy
72. https://github.com/relationships/ EvanandAlissa
73. https://github.com/frabcus/house (this is not frabcus’s house.)
74. Remember: the tools in your toolbox are awesome.
75. Get to know them.
76. Old : New : Old
77. https://joind.in/10522 @elizabethn elizabeth@github.com