Welcome to the collaborative web

What is GitHub style collaboration and why does it matter? What is a pull request? You don't need to be a coder to understand why these powerful ideas are changing how we work together in the modern world.

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1. welcome to the collaborative web tim clem • icerm • december 2012
2. i’m tim clem github.com/tclem
3. i live in san francisco
4. i work at GitHub design · engineering
5. what the hell is a github?
8. no really. what’s a github?
9. the best place to build software together
10. the social web like · +1 · — · props · ★ · favs · ‐
11. the social web
12. the social web collaborative
13. building better software together github is all about
14. the pull request
15. code first ask questions later
16. fork step 1
17. make something better step 2
18. talk about it step 3
19. an asynchronous conversation that starts with code pull requests are
20. fork step 1
21. fork
22. make something better step 2
26. talk about it step 3
28. talk about it! no really
30. merge
31. a process with a URL pull requests are
32. collaboration without coordination pull requests allow
33. electronic avoid meatspace
34. available everything has a URL
35. asynchronous do not disturb
36. lock free ask forgiveness, not permissions
37. but... make face time count
38. make it easier to work together than it is to work alone
39. hacking github https://github.com/unitedstates/congress https://github.com/whitehouse https://github.com/mattbellis/ Siena_College_Physics_2012_2013_Dark_matter_detection https://github.com/bundestag/gesetze
40. but i don’t code!
41. tools mac, windows, and more
45. github.com/defunkt/hub
48. but also... learn to code :)
49. software is eating the world
53. github.com/tclem twitter.com/timothyclem cheers