GitHub GitHub Universe 2019 Day 1 Keynote, 15 Nov 2019

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From YouTube: Supporting the Community - GitHub Universe 2019

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Open source projects can now receive funding through GitHub Sponsors. When we launched GitHub Sponsors in May, there was an outpouring of enthusiasm for funding open source. We also received lots of great feedback, with one consistent theme in particular: the community wants a way to fund people behind projects too. So starting today, open source projects can receive funding through GitHub Sponsors!

We’re partnering with the Stanford Libraries, the Long Now Foundation, the Internet Archive, the Software Heritage Foundation, Piql, Microsoft Research, and the Bodleian Library to preserve the world’s open source code. We’ll protect this knowledge by storing multiple copies across various data formats and locations, including a very-long-term archive designed to last at least 1,000 years called the GitHub Arctic Code Vault.

About GitHub Universe:
GitHub Universe is a two-day conference dedicated to the creativity and curiosity of the largest software community in the world. Sessions cover topics from team culture to open source software across industries and technologies.

For more information on GitHub Universe, check the website:
https://githubuniverse.com

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I'm really excited about putting github in your pockets and also excited about the huge investments we're making across nearly every aspect of the daily experience from from get up desktops and notifications to code search code, nav code review. This is something we take really seriously. We know those little moments. Those bits of friction can really drag you down when you're experiencing them again and again and again, and so we'd love to hear your feedback and we're going to keep making these types investments.

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Okay, now bringing it back to the heart of github, the open source community. Last May we introduced a new program called get up. Sponsors in beta and get of sponsors allows you to financially support the developers whose work you admire or depend upon in the open source community and so for an update on github sponsors. Please welcome Devin zukul Devin.

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Big fat hi, everyone, I'm Devin, the product manager of the open source economy team here at github, we're building, github sponsors, because we envision a future where open-source is a professional, lucrative career path. These developers maintain our critical digital infrastructure, which is only becoming ever more important. Every single day, open-source developers build the tools for the rest of us, so it's our job to build the tools that they need to succeed too. As a reminder, sponsors is a new way to financially support the developers who build the open-source software. We all use everyday.

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For example, I really admire maryadas work on the Python core team and I used to used Python and my old job. So now, I can go to her profile, click, the sponsor button and show her. My support with vien of sponsors developers can sponsor each other directly from their everyday workflows.

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When we launched the beta just a few months ago, we also announced the github sponsors matching fund, doubling the contributions you make to open-source developers. Jump starts the program. Meanwhile, this empowers you, the members of the community, to decide where the funding goes.

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Developers have already begun doing some amazing things with sponsors and I've been really excited to see. Some of the great projects that have been in the program I was personally thrilled when Daniel Stenberg joined, stop sponsors he's the founder and lead maintainer of curl with 10 billion installations. Worldwide. Curl is one of the most widely used software components in the entire world.

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Like many developers, I've used curl for years, so it was so cool to see someone who I've depended on for a long time finds my work useful too I'm also learning about loads of cool projects that I had never heard about before I recently stumbled across a profile for a guy named David.

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Who has this really cool project and then in his profile he said that he's been coding with his voice for five years, and that blew my mind because I'm someone who really likes programming and I also use voice to text all the time, but I had never thought to code with my voice. So I was really excited to check this project out.

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We've heard a lot of great feedback from this project throughout this entire summer, and we have seen some amazing things that people have been doing and it's been really exciting to see people be able to sponsor individual developers. We've also gotten a ton of great feedback, we've gotten feedback that teams want a way to sponsor their work as well, so starting today, teams can receive spon funding through github sponsors.

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If your open source project has a corporate or nonprofit bank account, you can apply to receive funds as a team, rather than just as an individual, we're thrilled to partner with amazing, open source projects like homebrew Numb focus, Babel, the e-book foundation and many more as we kick off the beta, and we cannot wait for more to join you'll, see their sponsorships when you go to any of their team's projects or to their organization.

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Page you'll see a sponsor button at the top of the page, where you'll be able to see how to sponsor them, whether it's through github sponsors or through other awesome funding tools like open, collective patreon, tide, lifts and community bridge project level. Funding is the natural next step for github sponsors and it gets to the core of what open source is all about. We're all standing on the shoulders of giants with new features like meet the team project level funding reflects the deeply collaborative way open-source is made.

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This is still just the beginning, and we are listening closely for more of your feedback. We're committed to helping the community fund developers who work in open source and we're excited to keep building new ways make that happen so head to github.com flash sponsors to get started. Thank you all and thank you especially to the open-source developers. You are the heart of the open-source community and we couldn't do any of this. Without you back to you now.

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Right, Thank, You Devin, we're really excited about sponsored projects and I'm, really proud of the work that we're doing at github to try to help open source communities continue to thrive. Now, we've been talking this morning about the importance of open source, but to put it in context, and maybe a larger historical context, I wanted to tell you a short story. This is Florence in Italy and this is the dome of the Florence Cathedral.

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It's the famous Duomo that was created at the height of the Italian Renaissance, and the story of how it was built is interesting. At the beginning of the 15th century, in 1418, the leaders of Florence set up a contest to find a builder who could create this beautiful dome and at the time no one knew how to construct a dome of the scale, because no such dome had been created. Actually, since the Roman Empire since nearly 1500 years earlier, that engineering knowledge that came from antiquity had been lost.

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But then a man who is named Filippo Brunelleschi, who lived in Florence and wanted to win. The contest took a trip to Rome and he went there to study the Roman ruins and some of the ancient texts from Vitruvius and others to rediscover these ancient engineering techniques and he learned from them and he was inspired by them and used what he learned in the construction of this beautiful cathedral. That ancient Roman knowledge that he was able to find in Rome helps power.

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The Italian Renaissance now when we think about our world today, the knowledge required to build a dome is not that different from the knowledge of how to build a container or how to create an accurate machine learning model or to make an app that works for a billion people. There's this long history on earth of humanity, where big things happened.

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Without software you know, algebra was invented, gun powder was discovered, empires rose and fell, and that's over nothing big will ever happen again without software, it's almost crazy or outlandish to say it, but but human progress actually depends on open source. So the code you write is important, it matters and it should be preserved, and so it github we decided. We should do something and, to be honest, we might have gotten a little carried away, but let's just see for yourself.

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Deep in the Arctic Circle in archipelago covered in ice, small barred home to the northernmost town in the world to thousands of polar bears.

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And it is here you can find the global Seed Vault millions of seeds have been sent here from across the globe. First, secure, long-term storage in cold and dry rock vaults just down the road is a decommissioned coal, mine that has taken on new life.

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This is where we will protect open source software for future generations.

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Deep within the permafrost layer, which can stretch up to 400 meters thick, we will store the world's open-source software on silver halide film. The data is encoded on frames, with eight point: eight million pixels each and designed to last over 1,000 years in our initial deposit, we archive thousands of the world's most dependent on open-source projects.

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The work of hundreds of thousands of developers from around the world.

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We will return next spring during the perpetual light of the Midnight Sun to deposit every active public repository on github for safekeeping in the github, our dick code, vault.

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All right Wow a little bit crazy. We know so. Two weeks ago we traveled the Svalbard to deposit the most popular and most dependent upon open-source projects into the github Arctic code, vault and they're there now and the beauty of this place is just stunning. It's so remote there's fewer than 3,000 people that live in Svalbard, but we actually met a number of github users, they're using open source software to drive scientific instruments and interpret their data to study the aurora, borealis and I.

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Think one of them is here somewhere Katie wherever you are, and so it turns out. Software is everywhere. Even this crazy remote place runs on open source, and so this is our code vault and to make sure that your code is included. All you need to do is have an active public repo by February 2nd of next year. We will snapshot every repo, that's been active in the prior year on that date and store it in Svalbard.

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Now this effort was inspired by many people and especially inspired by generations of people who have made archiving their life's work. Archivists are so important, and so this actually the github Arctic code vault, is just one piece of the work we're doing to preserve and protect open source for developers who are here today and for developers. Yet to come.

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The broader effort, we called the github archive program and I'm really happy to announce that we've partnered with many of the people and the organizations that inspired us who are dedicated to preserving knowledge, to make sure that we store the actual code in different locations and different storage media around the world.

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Lots of copies keep stuff safe, and so a few of our partners are actually here today the Internet Archive talking about how the wayback machine will give you full access to github the Arctic world archive software, Heritage Foundation long now, Stanford and Microsoft Research, which is developing project silica, which is a 10,000 year, storage, medium, so they'll be here on the main stage at 4:15. Don't miss it.