GitHub For Poets - For Engineers

GitHub for Poets is a program to help non-engineer staff understand Kickstarter's engineering processes and contribute code.

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1. Engineering Meetup Welcome to the
2. helps creative projects come to life
3. Aaron Suggs ktheory Ops Engineer
4. GitHub for Poets Help your whole company to commit code
5. What is GitHub for Poets? • 1 hour session open to all staff • GitHub Flow in the Browser • Intro to engineering process
6. Why do G4P? • Staff interested in learning to code • #AlwaysBeLearning • Remove Engineering bottleneck • Make Engineering transparent & inclusive
7. G4P: Howto • Add staff to GitHub org • Talk about GitHub Flow • Demonstrate it
8. Pro Tips™ • Change something conspicuous • Get audience participation ASAP (branch name, copy changes) • 8-12 people per session
9. Pro Tip™: Safe deploy process • A git branch of your own • Tests & continuous integration • Deployer checks what's getting deployed
10. Pro Tip™: explain what this means
11. Success! Our G4P Stats • 11 new staff have made 183 commits on master • 2 new repos for internal wikis • Easier communication
12. (Most important) Encourage whimsy