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GitHub Principles for Awesome

Scott J. Roberts
December 14, 2012
Programming
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GitHub Principles for Awesome

A presentation I gave at Mozilla's NYC Game Jam about lessons from GitHub that are great for open source projects of any kind.

Scott J. Roberts

December 14, 2012
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Transcript

  1. GitHub Principles for Awesome Monday, December 17, 12

  2. Scott (@sroberts) Bad Guy Catcher more than Monday, December 17,

    12

  3. Anything added dilutes everything Monday, December 17, 12

  4. Favor focus over features Monday, December 17, 12

  5. Approachable is better than simple Monday, December 17, 12

  6. Encourage flow Monday, December 17, 12

  7. Design for failure Monday, December 17, 12

  8. Open Source Company Monday, December 17, 12

  9. No one has a manager... Everybody is one Monday, December

    17, 12

  10. Be classy Monday, December 17, 12

  11. Make it easier to work together than to work alone

    Monday, December 17, 12

  12. Questions? Scott github.com/sroberts @sroberts Monday, December 17, 12