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
2. forkingcodemanagers buildingownership cultureproductivity automationautonomy communicationshipping
6. AMATEURS
7. INNOVATORS
9. THE FUTURE
11. THE SOCIAL WEB like +1 ♥ props ˒ favs ‐
12. THE SOCIAL WEB
13. THE COLLABORATIVE WEB
14. build create tinker invent COLLABORATE
16. BUT FIRST: SOME HISTORY
17. ALL STORIES MUST START SOMEWHERE
22. logical awesome
23. PUBLIC LAUNCH: APRIL 2008
24. A LOT HAS CHANGED
27. THERE ARE A FEW MORE OF US
29. FAVORITE GITHUB FEATURES
30. GITHUB HD
36. PAGES
38. SHORTCUTS
39. SHORTCUTS t fuzzy file finder
41. SHORTCUTS w branch chooser
43. SHORTCUTS ? many, many more!
44. THE PULL REQUEST
45. pull requests are an asynchronous conversation that starts with code
46. works for branches too!
48. TOOLS FOR ALL
49. WINDOWS
51. MAC
53. ECLIPSE
55. HUB
56. https://github.com/defunkt/hub hub clone github/linguist hub pull-request -i 123
57. even better if you alias to git: eval "$(hub alias -s)"
58. THE OCTODEX octodex.github.com
60. HOW DOES GITHUB WORK?
61. MEETINGS SUCK
62. ASYNC
63. CHAT
64. a public record with searchable transcripts
65. a public record with searchable transcripts also robawt enhanced
68. hubot what are the rules?
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
70. NO PRODUCT MANAGERS
71. NO MANAGERS
72. NO MANAGERS
73. SHIP
75. MEASURE
78. OPEN SOURCE (ALMOST) EVERYTHING
79. TECHNOLOGY
80. PYTHON AT GITHUB
81. GRAPHITE http://graphite.wikidot.com https://github.com/graphite-project
82. hubot graph me @fe.load.stacked
84. GRAPHITE
87. PYGMENTS https://github.com/github/linguist https://github.com/tmm1/pygments.rb http://pygments.org/
88. ``` Pygments.highlight('code', :options => {:encoding =>'utf-8'}) ```
89. ```ruby Pygments.highlight('code', :options => {:encoding =>'utf-8'}) ```
90. STORIES
91. THE OCTOCAT (A BRIEF HISTORY)
92. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hm3E2cGQE4
94. WHEN THINGS GO WRONG
96. EMBRACE FAILURE: BUT LEARN FROM YOUR MISTAKES
97. AMATEURS
98. protein folding
99. zooniverse
102. IN THE HANDS OF AMATEURS