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GitHub Culture and Technology

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GitHub Culture and Technology

Talk given at 200OK in 2013.

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September 27, 2013
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  1. GitHub Culture and Technology Tuesday, October 1, 13

  2. (from my point of view) Tuesday, October 1, 13

  3. So thankful to be here! Tuesday, October 1, 13

  4. ok.rb reboot • Thursday, October 10th • 11:30 - 12:30

    • The Exchange • Free Lunch! • Thank you Jeremy Green and Rob Sullivan!! Tuesday, October 1, 13

  5. Who does Ops? Tuesday, October 1, 13

  6. Tuesday, October 1, 13

  7. Tuesday, October 1, 13

  8. Obligatory Shout-out to Me • Michael “Gorsuch” Gorsuch • Ops

    @ GitHub • Generalist • @gorsuch everywhere • except twitter, @michaelgorsuch Tuesday, October 1, 13

  9. (a little backstory, I swear it is relevant) Tuesday, October

    1, 13

  10. started doing ops in 1996 Tuesday, October 1, 13

  11. Innovation Systems Integrators Tuesday, October 1, 13

  12. Tuesday, October 1, 13

  13. Aiki Networks Tuesday, October 1, 13

  14. Tuesday, October 1, 13

  15. Tuesday, October 1, 13

  16. Tuesday, October 1, 13

  17. Tuesday, October 1, 13

  18. Tuesday, October 1, 13

  19. Tuesday, October 1, 13

  20. Tuesday, October 1, 13

  21. Tuesday, October 1, 13

  22. What is GitHub (the product)? Tuesday, October 1, 13

  23. Source Control Tuesday, October 1, 13

  24. Distributed Source Control Tuesday, October 1, 13

  25. For Both Public and Private Projects Tuesday, October 1, 13

  26. Collaboration via Issues Tuesday, October 1, 13

  27. Tuesday, October 1, 13

  28. Collaboration via Pull Requests Tuesday, October 1, 13

  29. Tuesday, October 1, 13

  30. Tuesday, October 1, 13

  31. Collaboration is Asynchronous Tuesday, October 1, 13

  32. Emphasizes Shipping Tuesday, October 1, 13

  33. Emphasizes Hustle Tuesday, October 1, 13

  34. What is GitHub (the company)? Tuesday, October 1, 13

  35. First Principles as a First Class Citizen Tuesday, October 1,

    13

  36. “Your team should work like an open source project” http://tomayko.com/writings/adopt-an-open-source-

    process-constraints Tuesday, October 1, 13

  37. Run as an Open Source Project Tuesday, October 1, 13

  38. Distributed Tuesday, October 1, 13

  39. Asynchronous Tuesday, October 1, 13

  40. Emphasizes Shipping Tuesday, October 1, 13

  41. Emphasizes Hustle Tuesday, October 1, 13

  42. No Time for Big Egos, Ninjas or Rockstars Tuesday, October

    1, 13

  43. Tuesday, October 1, 13

  44. Instead: hungry, independent hip-hop artists Tuesday, October 1, 13

  45. “Everything I Know About Being an Open Source Hacker I

    Learned From Indie Hip Hop” http://www.atmos.org/speaking.html http://vimeo.com/10877889 Tuesday, October 1, 13

  46. We care about Product Tuesday, October 1, 13

  47. None of this: Tuesday, October 1, 13

  48. Tuesday, October 1, 13

  49. Building Better Software, Together Tuesday, October 1, 13

  50. time to talk about tools Tuesday, October 1, 13

  51. Synchronous Communication? Tuesday, October 1, 13

  52. IM Tuesday, October 1, 13

  53. Google Hangouts Tuesday, October 1, 13

  54. Tuesday, October 1, 13

  55. Campfire (we’ll get back to this) Tuesday, October 1, 13

  56. Asynchronous Communication? Tuesday, October 1, 13

  57. No email. Tuesday, October 1, 13

  58. GitHub Issues / Pull Requests Tuesday, October 1, 13

  59. Team Tuesday, October 1, 13

  60. Tuesday, October 1, 13

  61. Tuesday, October 1, 13

  62. Wait. Tuesday, October 1, 13

  63. Hold up. Tuesday, October 1, 13

  64. WTF is a ChatOps? Tuesday, October 1, 13

  65. We hooked a robot up to Campfire and we tell

    him to do stuff. Tuesday, October 1, 13

  66. Tuesday, October 1, 13

  67. Tuesday, October 1, 13

  68. Tuesday, October 1, 13

  69. Tuesday, October 1, 13

  70. Tuesday, October 1, 13

  71. Tuesday, October 1, 13

  72. Tuesday, October 1, 13

  73. Tuesday, October 1, 13

  74. Tuesday, October 1, 13

  75. Tuesday, October 1, 13

  76. Tuesday, October 1, 13

  77. Tuesday, October 1, 13

  78. Seriously, though, ChatOps is core to our workflow Tuesday, October

    1, 13

  79. provision servers Tuesday, October 1, 13

  80. kick off builds Tuesday, October 1, 13

  81. deploy applications to Heroku, AWS or bare metal Tuesday, October

    1, 13

  82. Who uses ChatOps? Tuesday, October 1, 13

  83. Everyone. Tuesday, October 1, 13

  84. In closing, two things: Tuesday, October 1, 13

  85. First Principles Tuesday, October 1, 13

  86. Product Tuesday, October 1, 13

  87. :heart: Tuesday, October 1, 13