Inside GitHub’s role in community-building and other open source advances

An interview with Matthew McCullough

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In this video interview, Matthew McCullough of GitHub discusses what they’ve learned over time as they grow and watch projects develop there.

Highlights from the full video interview include:

  • How GitHub builds on Git’s strengths to allow more people to collaborate on a project [Discussed at the 00:30 mark]
  • The value of stability and simple URLs [Discussed at the 02:05 mark]
  • Forking as the next level of democracy for software [Discussed at the 04:02 mark]
  • The ability to build a community around a GitHub repo [Discussed at the 05:05 mark]
  • GitHub for education, and the use of open source projects for university work [Discussed at the 06:26 mark]
  • The value of line-level comments in source code [Discussed at the 09:36 mark]
  • How to be a productive contributor [Discussed at the 10:53 mark]
  • Tools for Windows users [Discussed at the 11:56 mark]

You can view the entire conversation in the following video:

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