Building Software Together on GitHub

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Building Software Together on GitHub Arfon Smith @arfon Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License http://is.gd/nsfsi2

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What is a GitHub?

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GitHub

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Starts with you

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You and your team

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Getting bootstrapped

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Reducing friction

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script/bootstrap

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script/server

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script/cibuild

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http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2005/10/getting_users_p.html

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What is is like to be a new contributor?

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Better at collaborating because they have to be

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“open source is… reproducible by necessity” Fernando Perez http://blog.fperez.org/2013/11/an-ambitious-experiment-in-data-science.html

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‘Open Source’ way of working

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“Open source software is software that can be freely used, modified, and shared (in both modified and unmodified form) by anyone. Today the concept of "open source" is often extended beyond software, to represent a philosophy of collaboration in which working materials are made available online for anyone to fork, modify, discuss, and contribute to.” https://help.github.com/articles/github-glossary#open-source

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(doesn’t have to mean this) Open Public? =

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Open (within your team, department or institution)

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Electronic

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Available

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Asynchronous, exposed process

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Lock-free

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Low friction collaboration

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You, your team and a community

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Why are you sharing?

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GitHub is about helping people build software together

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The pull request

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Code ﬁrst, permission later

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Merged pull requests

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What’s happening today?

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Towards Collaborative Versioned Science

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“publishing a paper about code is basically just advertising” David Donoho http://www.stanford.edu/~vcs/Video.html

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Reproducibility Computational

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What if all research was like this?

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script/server script/bootstrap script/cibuild

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README.md == paper

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“Academic environments of today do not reward tool builders” Ed Lazowska, OSTP event http://lazowska.cs.washington.edu/MS/MS.OSTP.pdf