We Should be Lovers

Trust, Humility & Relationship. Three fundamental building blocks that help foster community. In this talk Matt gives examples what to look for inside your team, projects and self to help better the community you work in. Then shares details of how GitHub lives out community and relationship within its organization.

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34. traumatic
35. Design without Development
36. Development without Deployment
37. 41 Shades of Blue
45. Who are these people?
49. We are the industry craftsmen
50. Craftsmen: a person who practices or is highly skilled in a craft;
51. We want the same thing.
52. "The way we work at Apple makes it critical to work collaboratively with different areas of expertise… ...we share the same goal, have exactly the same preoccupation, with making great products." - Jonny Ive
54. Know the company vision
55. and align yourself with it.
56. Get to know your team
57. What have they done?
58. What are their skill sets?
59. What are they passionate about?
60. What drives them to want to punch co-workers in the FACE.
61. Do not expect that they do things the way you do things.
63. Understand Your Projects
64. Develop a SHARED understanding of the project/requirements
66. Document all things
67. Identify technical challenges
68. Expose expectations
69. Estimate time and effort
70. Divide and Conquer
71. Understand yourself
72. What are you passionate about?
73. How you work best?
74. Be aware of your insides.
75. Be aware of your blindspots, and that you don't know them all.
76. You can’t control the company atmosphere, but with mindfulness you can know how you effect it.
77. Community Adjustments
78. Trust Your Team
79. Repent Quickly
80. “Why are you so afraid of something you’ve done so often?” -W
82. Forgive Often
84. "Avoid attacking people, attack problems." - Tom Preston-Werner
85. Relate with your team
86. Communicate Transparently
87. You don't need to know how to write the code, you need to know how to communicate with the developer who does.
88. Be involved in as much of the project as you can.
89. Love your ideas but, be willing to change them
90. Don’t Stop Learning
91. Community works when your willing to put the team above yourself.
94. Hire for Community
96. Transparent Communication
97. 118 Chat Rooms (with search) Danger Room Ops Room Midwest Room CodeBass Room The Outreach Room The Design Room The .com Room Cheddar
98. Transparent Expenses
99. Cerebro Documents
100. Pull Request Community
101. Automate Everything
102. Boxen
104. hubot deploy speakerkdeck/dark-side to production Deployments
105. Ship Early. Ship Often.
106. Finding people who are passionate about your idea.
107. Drink Beers
108. Relate with each other, understand each others joys, pains and headaches. Community solves the problem.
109. Austin, Texas Montevarchi, Italy Portland, Maine South Bend, Indiana Kona, Hawaii Manzanillo, Mexico Punta del Este, Uruguay GitHub Destinations Pa Tong Kathu Phuket, Thailand
110. Mini-Summits
115. "The best software is made by happy people working together." - Brian Doll
116. Trust. Humility. Relationship.