Forking your way to success and happiness: how GitHub style collaboration is ushering in a new era of amateur led innovation

Come hear about the tools, technology, corporate structure, and ethos that lets GitHub use GitHub to build GitHub. From a couple of guys in a coffee shop to almost 100 employees, millions of users, and massive open source projects that are powering businesses around the world, it's been a bit of a wild ride. Hear about some lessons learned and challenges we've faced: things we've done right and others that didn't work out so well. Learn a little bit about our growing technology stack and how we design and deploy features. Get some insight into why we still have no managers and how everyone decides what to work on. Finally, hear about how open source has shaped the company and our vision of 'open' in everything from hardware to politics to education and science. The social web is old news, but the collaborative web is just in its infancy and GitHub sees that as a very bright future.

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1. FORKING YOUR
   WAY TO SUCCESS
   AND HAPPINESS
   tclem
   

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2. forkingcodemanagers
   buildingownership
   cultureproductivity
   automationautonomy
   communicationshipping
   

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6. AMATEURS
   

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7. INNOVATORS
   

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9. THE FUTURE
   

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11. THE
    SOCIAL
    WEB
    like
    +1
    ♥
    props
    ˒
    favs
    ‐
    

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12. THE
    SOCIAL
    WEB
    

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13. THE
    COLLABORATIVE
    WEB
    

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14. build
    create
    tinker
    invent
    COLLABORATE
    

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16. BUT FIRST:
    SOME HISTORY
    

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17. ALL STORIES MUST
    START
    SOMEWHERE
    

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22. logical awesome
    

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23. PUBLIC LAUNCH:
    APRIL 2008
    

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24. A LOT HAS
    CHANGED
    

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27. THERE ARE A FEW
    MORE OF US
    

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29. FAVORITE GITHUB
    FEATURES
    

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30. GITHUB HD
    

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36. PAGES
    

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38. SHORTCUTS
    

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39. SHORTCUTS
    t
    fuzzy file finder
    

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41. SHORTCUTS
    w
    branch chooser
    

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43. SHORTCUTS
    ?
    many, many more!
    

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44. THE PULL REQUEST
    

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45. pull requests are an
    asynchronous
    conversation that
    starts with code
    

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46. works for branches
    too!
    

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48. TOOLS FOR ALL
    

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49. WINDOWS
    

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51. MAC
    

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53. ECLIPSE
    

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55. HUB
    

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56. https://github.com/defunkt/hub
    hub clone github/linguist
    hub pull-request -i 123
    

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57. even better if you
    alias to git:
    eval "$(hub alias -s)"
    

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58. THE OCTODEX
    octodex.github.com
    

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60. HOW DOES
    GITHUB WORK?
    

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61. MEETINGS SUCK
    

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62. ASYNC
    

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63. CHAT
    

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64. a public record with
    searchable transcripts
    

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65. a public record with
    searchable transcripts
    also robawt enhanced
    

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68. hubot what are the rules?
    

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69. office me
    remote me
    deploy github/fix-a-bug
    ci build github/windows
    graph me @-1week @app-perf.mysql-queries
    provision me
    what’s not deployed on github?
    where is holman?
    door me
    play something I like
    hubot
    

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70. NO PRODUCT
    MANAGERS
    

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71. NO MANAGERS
    

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72. NO MANAGERS
    

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73. SHIP
    

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75. MEASURE
    

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78. OPEN SOURCE
    (ALMOST)
    EVERYTHING
    

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79. TECHNOLOGY
    

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80. PYTHON AT
    GITHUB
    

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81. GRAPHITE
    http://graphite.wikidot.com
    https://github.com/graphite-project
    

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82. hubot
    graph me @fe.load.stacked
    

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84. GRAPHITE
    

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87. PYGMENTS
    https://github.com/github/linguist
    https://github.com/tmm1/pygments.rb
    http://pygments.org/
    

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88. ```
    Pygments.highlight('code', :options =>
    {:encoding =>'utf-8'})
    ```
    

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89. ```ruby
    Pygments.highlight('code', :options =>
    {:encoding =>'utf-8'})
    ```
    

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90. STORIES
    

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91. THE OCTOCAT
    (A BRIEF HISTORY)
    

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92. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hm3E2cGQE4
    

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94. WHEN THINGS GO
    WRONG
    

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96. EMBRACE FAILURE:
    BUT LEARN FROM
    YOUR MISTAKES
    

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97. AMATEURS
    

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98. protein folding
    

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99. zooniverse
    

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102. IN THE HANDS
     OF
     AMATEURS
     

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