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 @ElizabethN
2. Hi, I’m Elizabeth.
4. Repos
5. Growing pains
6. Pain 1: Discussions were in Inboxes.
8. Pain 2: Information was difficult to collect.
10. Pain 3: We were using spreadsheets.
12. Pain 4: Tasks were getting lost.
14. Pain 5: We had no metrics.
16. Pain 6: Lots of manual labor.
18. How can we find solutions?
20. Sponsorship Repo
21. http://community.github.com
22. GitHub API
23. • Tutorials/Development Guides • Basic API Documentation • Sample Code • Libraries • Support http://developer.github.com
24. • Notifications (starring, watching) • Gists (editing, starring, sharing) • Issues (list, create, edit, close) • Markdown rendering • Search (repos, code, issues, users) Just A Few Examples…
25. • 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) A Few More Examples…
26. • Users (update profile, get follower info) • Emojis And Even a Few More Examples…
27. https://github.com/KnpLabs/php-github-api PHP GitHub API Client
28. Every request is an issue.
43. http://hubot.github.com
44. Sponsorship Repo Available Tickets Repo
45. Sponsorship Repo Available Tickets Repo Speaking Opps Repo
46. Sponsorship Repo Available Tickets Repo Speaking Opps Repo OctoBooth Repo
47. Sponsorship Repo Available Tickets Repo Speaking Opps Repo OctoBooth Repo Print Requests Repo
48. Sponsorship Repo Available Tickets Repo Speaking Opps Repo OctoBooth Repo Print Requests Repo • Support Tickets ! !
49. Sponsorship Repo Available Tickets Repo Speaking Opps Repo OctoBooth Repo Print Requests Repo • Support Tickets • Swag Requests !
50. Sponsorship Repo Available Tickets Repo Speaking Opps Repo OctoBooth Repo Print Requests Repo • Support Tickets • Swag Requests • Drinkup Plans
51. Sponsorship Repo Available Tickets Repo Speaking Opps Repo OctoBooth Repo Print Requests Repo • Support Tickets • Swag Requests • Drinkup Plans • Buddy Travel
52. What else?
53. Onboarding
54. User Experience Studies
55. Policy Conversations
56. Finance
57. Internal, External, and Project-Specific Documentation
58. Officey Things
59. Coordinating HackHouses
60. Legal
61. Employee Stuff for Sale
62. Toasts
63. That’s great, Elizabeth, but what about the rest of the world?
64. Government /SFMOCI/openlaw /unitedstates/glossary /CityOfPhiladelphia/phl-policecomplaint-data /Chicago/osd-bike-racks ! ! ! !
65. Science /cpfaff/Open-Science-Paper /CenterForOpenScience/Policies-and-Procedures ! !
66. Authors /manuelkiessling/NodeBeginnerBook /progit/progit /addyosmani/backbone-fundamentals ! ! !
67. https://github.com/thedaniel/xl600
68. https://github.com/rosannaf/knitting-patterns
69. https://github.com/sinker/tacofancy
70. https://github.com/relationships/ EvanandAlissa
71. https://github.com/frabcus/house (this is not frabcus’s house.)
72. Remember: the tools in your toolbox are awesome.
73. Get to know them.
74. @elizabethn elizabeth@github.com