GitHub / Universe 2016 - Launch

The current status quo in running and scaling out teams is to have everyone work in the same or at least in different offices. With the rise of open source, a different model of working and collaborating has emerged that is adopted by more and more companies, especially as they struggle to hire talent, build diverse teams and keep up with economies of scale that haven’t existed before.

In this talk Mathias Meyer, CEO of Travis CI, will share some of our learnings as we grew our team and pushed our team’s distribution further. The talk will focus on how to structure communication in distributed and remote teams, the tools that are available today to increase collaboration while also increasing visibility, and on the challenges of working across multiple timezones and countries.

After this session you will be better equipped with tools that can help your team adopt a more asynchronous and inclusive culture of working, and you’ll walk away with ideas on how to structure communication and collaboration in distributed teams in a way that helps local teams as well.

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

Pamela Vickers, an Engineering Manager at Mailchimp, discusses how to guide newcomers through the stages of learning. Most of the four learning stages—unconscious incompetence, conscious incompetence, conscious competence and unconscious competence—are bridged by acquiring experience. But the gap between unconscious incompetence to conscious incompetence is where the most discomfort and discouragement occurs.

Helping new developers bridge that void ensures a vibrant, accessible community, and having visible members/mentors in each stage encourages newcomers' learning. This talk illustrates (literally!) how to help new colleagues build this bridge and prevent losing them in the what-do-I-even-Google abyss.

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

Ever wondered what software gets developed at a national laboratory? Thanks to the open source efforts of LLNL, you don't have to wonder any longer!

Join Ian Lee, Computer Engineer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, as he highlights the ongoing expansion of the open source community inside one Department of Energy research lab. These developers bring software and tools which support science and security, issues of national importance, into the open source community. Ian will also describe the unique challenge of bringing decades old software projects and historically closed source developers into the open source community for the first time.

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

If you can build a website, you can build a desktop app. Electron is a framework for creating native Desktop applications with web technologies like JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. In this session, hosted by Zeke Sikelianos, an Electron Developer at GitHub, we'll look at some of the amazing things you can create using features and tools Electron inherits from the Chromium browser, Node.js, and the vast ecosystem of npm modules.

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

With the GitHub GraphQL API, GitHub is creating a new way of exposing our data for integrators and our own engineers at GitHub. GraphQL works very differently than our REST API's and the GitHub GraphQL API has the added benefit of being the same platform GitHub Engineers are beginning to use.

In this session, Dan Schafer from Facebook and one of the co-creators of GraphQL will start by explaining why Facebook created GraphQL, how it works, and what types of problems it solves.

Then, Kyle Daigle from GitHub will share how GitHub has implemented GraphQL, how we're using GraphQL internally, and the changes we're making as an organization to support this new GraphQL API.

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

How do you know if you are you making the most of your GitHub Enterprise instance? This talk by CJ Johnson and Lee Faus of GitHub will explore how to leverage key features and tools to establish best practices in an agile environment. We'll look at ways to measure if your team is using GitHub Enterprise effectively and how to socially engineer maximum transparency and collaboration. Focus will be placed on the importance of providing early code reviews using BDD and TDD methodologies. Finally, we will see a ChatOps based Standup tool to keep your team on the same page.

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

Shlomi Noach, Senior Infrastructure Engineer at GitHub, introduces GitHub's latest open source release: gh-ost, a schema migration solution for MySQL.

gh-ost changes the online migration paradigm and overcomes today's limitations and difficulties in MySQL table migrations. gh-ost was designed with performance and operations in mind. It is triggerless, controllable, auditable, suspendable, and testable.

Shlomi will discuss the reasoning for embarking on developing a new solution, the existing MySQL migrations landscape, gh-ost's underlying logic, operational perks, future plans and surprising implications. Shlomi will also share thoughts on the open source landscape and the role he expects gh-ost to play.

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