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
    

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35. Design without Development
    

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36. Development without Deployment
    

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37. 41 Shades of Blue
    

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45. Who are these people?
    

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49. We are the industry craftsmen
    

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50. Craftsmen: a person who practices or is
    highly skilled in a craft;
    

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51. We want the same thing.
    

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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
    

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54. Know the company vision
    

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55. and align yourself with it.
    

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56. Get to know your team
    

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57. What have they done?
    

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58. What are their skill sets?
    

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59. What are they passionate about?
    

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60. What drives them to want to
    punch co-workers in the FACE.
    

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61. Do not expect that they do things
    the way you do things.
    

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63. Understand Your Projects
    

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64. Develop a SHARED understanding
    of the project/requirements
    

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66. Document all things
    

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67. Identify technical challenges
    

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68. Expose expectations
    

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69. Estimate time and effort
    

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70. Divide and Conquer
    

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71. Understand yourself
    

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72. What are you passionate about?
    

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73. How you work best?
    

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74. Be aware of your insides.
    

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75. Be aware of your blindspots, and
    that you don't know them all.
    

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76. You can’t control the company
    atmosphere, but with mindfulness
    you can know how you effect it.
    

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77. Community Adjustments
    

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78. Trust Your Team
    

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79. Repent Quickly
    

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80. “Why are you so afraid of
    something you’ve done so often?”
    -W
    

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82. Forgive Often
    

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84. "Avoid attacking people, attack
    problems." - Tom Preston-Werner
    

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85. Relate with your team
    

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86. Communicate Transparently
    

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87. You don't need to know how to
    write the code, you need to know
    how to communicate with the
    developer who does.
    

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88. Be involved in as much of the
    project as you can.
    

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89. Love your ideas
    but, be willing to change them
    

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90. Don’t Stop Learning
    

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91. Community works when your
    willing to put the team above
    yourself.
    

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94. Hire for Community
    

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96. Transparent Communication
    

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97. 118 Chat Rooms (with search)
    Danger Room
    Ops Room
    Midwest Room
    CodeBass Room
    The Outreach Room
    The Design Room
    The .com Room
    Cheddar
    

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98. Transparent Expenses
    

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99. Cerebro
    Documents
    

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100. Pull Request Community
     

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101. Automate Everything
     

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102. Boxen
     

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104. hubot deploy speakerkdeck/dark-side to production
     Deployments
     

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105. Ship Early. Ship Often.
     

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106. Finding people who are passionate
     about your idea.
     

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107. Drink Beers
     

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108. Relate with each other, understand
     each others joys, pains and
     headaches. Community solves the
     problem.
     

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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
     

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110. Mini-Summits
     

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115. "The best software is made by
     happy people working together." -
     Brian Doll
     

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116. Trust. Humility. Relationship.
     

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