GitHub / Universe 2016 - Flight

Join Ayman Nadeem, Pat Nakajima, and Connor Sears, from GitHub as they introduce two major workflow improvements to GitHub.

Code review improvements introduce the ability to request changes or approve pull requests, with the intent of eliminating ambiguity around next steps, and helping hold one another accountable to ship quality code.

Projects on GitHub aim to simplify the way issues and pull requests within any given repository are coordinated and prioritized. Within a Project, columns can be created and named to represent different categories of work. Issues, pull requests and notes can then be added to and moved around between columns according to the changing needs of a project.

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

Colin Dean, a software engineer with IBM Watson, discusses the benefits and challenges of Code Review within organizations. Code Review is not a new concept, but a specific term for an older concept -- Peer Review -- that focuses the review process on the code under examination instead of the person who submitted it. While Code Review is common in open source projects, organizations developing in private often employ inefficient, frustrating, or virtually non-existent review processes.

This talk looks at Code Review from an architect's viewpoint, arguing that Code Review is an essential component in a product's architectural plan because of the quality attributes it may provide. It also covers tips and sets expectations for what Code Review can and cannot solve.

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

In The Hitchhikers’s Guide to the Galaxy, the Babel Fish is a universal translator. By allowing all beings to communicate regardless of language, it ‘neatly crosses the language divide between any species’. Aditya Mukerjee, an Engineer at Stripe notes in this talk that most programming languages are designed for English speakers, and most open source projects require some familiarity with English. How do we create a multilingual programming language and a multilingual open source community, allowing developers who only speak English to collaborate on open-source projects with developers who don't speak English at all?

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

Diversity and inclusion have become hot topics in technology, but you may not know how you can make a difference. This talk from Anjuan Simmons will help you understand that, no matter your background, you have privilege and can lend it to marginalized groups in tech.

Privilege is access to societal and economic benefits based on a characteristic you possess. The most well understood forms of privilege are the ones most people don't choose for themselves like parental, racial, gendered, and physical privilege. However, there are also selected privileges like religion, gender identity, and education.

This session will teach attendees how to lend their privilege. They will learn three types of privilege lending including credibility lending (where you attach your name to a project being undertaken by someone without privilege), access lending (where you provide access to a position, location or event), and expertise lending (where you give the opportunity to be recognized as an expert). These different types of privilege lending will be illustrated through well known examples and concrete examples of how they can play out in the technology industry.

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

When you combine the best of web and native with a framework like Electron, you give your app superpowers – but, with great power comes great responsibility. Taking a hybrid approach to application development brings with it a unique set of challenges. Machisté Quintana, Software Engineer at Slack, will teach about the tools the Slack team has developed to help reduce friction in Electron development, letting you use the latest and greatest from the web community (like React, ES2016+, TypeScript, Less, and more) natively in Electron, from local development through production, all without breaking a sweat.

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

Todd O'Connor, SCM Architect & Engineer at Adobe, describes how managing a rapidly growing, large scale, GitHub instance provides many challenges to balance end user productivity with enterprise security requirements and server administrative needs.

Adobe's GitHub Enterprise server is a single instance serving over 7,700 users. Todd will touch upon the needs of Adobe's site admins (concerned with server health, bad behavior detection), managers (concerned with metrics and reports), the security team (concerned with log analysis and access), and end users (integrations, user management).

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

Join Matt Desmond and Eric Hollenberry, trainers at GitHub, for a discussion on pull requests and the GitHub Flow.

If pull requests are used effectively with proper code review and your existing workflow, they can not only help ensure high quality of written code, but do so without sacrificing the speed of development. We'll start out by looking at what makes a great pull request, and what barriers people have with sending and receiving them. Next, we'll remove some of those barriers by discussing some code review best practices to ensure the code we're writing is well written and well tested. Lastly, we'll see how and why these pieces are a crucial part of a proper workflow, and what advantages the GitHub Flow has.

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

It's the little details that make using Git and GitHub so great, but what are those details and commands that expose you to the best of the platform? Do you know how to close issues from pull requests? How to quickly browse to a file? Do you know how to find the history of a range of lines in a given file? Join Jamie Strusz and Brent Beer from GitHub to answer these questions and find joy in the little things.

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