GitHub, an egalitarian love story

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an egalitarian love story Photo of Paul Simonon by Pennie Smith @briandoll

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GitHub isn't a startup, it's a punk band that makes software. - @rtomayko

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GitHub is still an independent punk band. They're just going with a major label distributor. - @shanev

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Egalitarianism http://www.ragingchickenpress.org/

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Equality for all Egalitarianism:

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Rules Suck Egalitarianism:

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Egalitarianism: Group Decision making

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Egalitarianism: Decentralized control

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"organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations" Conway’s Law: /via @kneath

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is egalitarian

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all repositories are equal

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choose your own workflow

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collaboration without coordination

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is egalitarian

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Everyone can contribute

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Pull requests are egalitarian

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GitHub makes it easier to work together than alone

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tools -> people -> product -> values -> taste -> tools -> people -> ...

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is egalitarian software

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/via @rtomayko’s OSS Constraints Constraints Electronic communication

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/via @rtomayko’s OSS Constraints Constraints Available via URL

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/via @rtomayko’s OSS Constraints Constraints Asynchronous

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/via @rtomayko’s OSS Constraints Constraints Lock-free

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is egalitarian (the company)

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Influence over hierarchy

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Contributions are made based on skills, interest and company focus, not your job title

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chat-based office is location independent

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No rules, but 5 core values

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Optimize for happiness values

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Best argument wins values

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Make decisions from first principals values

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Create superfans values

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Be awesome and change the world values

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You, your projects and your company are egalitarian

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How can you improve equality?

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What rules are really necessary?

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How can you best make decisions?

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How are you going to change the world?

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Thank You! Questions? @briandoll