Tierney Cyren

Posted on May 10, 2019

Discuss: GitHub Special Event

#webdev #opensource #discuss #github

This week GitHub shared that they were planning a GitHub Special Event for... today 😱

The Details

The event is currently planned for 1:30pm PT.
The GitHub team has a special livestream page set up
- This page is using YouTube, which allows you to set reminders for when a scheduled stream goes live if you're signed into YouTube.

What We Know

GitHub is launching a new product (ref)
It's not a Responsive version of GitHub.com or Gist Notifications, since those have both already launched this week (ref, ref)
???

Who to Follow (Twitter)

GitHub: I don't doubt that GitHub's socials will be actively tweeting whatever is happening.
Nat Friedman: Nat is the CEO of GitHub and has been very actively hyping this up. Definitely a good person to follow if you want to catch the messages from the source via a human.
Bryan Clark: Bryan is the individual who invited me to the event and is Director of Product for OSS Maintainers at GitHub. (That's a super awesome title, right?)
Tierney Cyren: That's me! I'll be at the event and would be kidding myself if I were to say I'd be doing anything other than live-tweeting the event while I'm there. Super hyped 😱

What Now?

I figured it would be awesome to kick off a discuss post to keep up with what everyone is thinking about and feeling about the event leading up to it and talk about whatever happens while it's happening.

A few questions I have for y'all to kick things off:

What do you think is going to be shared?
What would you love to see?
Do you think it's something that'll be available today or a longer-term thing?

Latest comments (46)

Scott Robertson • May 10 '19

I think we just got tricked into watching 30 minutes of Github adverts.

Brad • May 10 '19

my guess is increased integration with MS Cloud in some significant way. (totally blind guess)

Ben Halpern • May 10 '19

An Azure integration, or anything over "Microsofty", could be one reason to do this late Friday if they didn't want to stir up too much controversy over GitHub's pseudo-independence from the mothership.

Just a random thought.

Manuel Bieh • May 10 '19

GitHub Community Edition. They will open source their core product similar to how Gitlab is doing it.

Michiel Hendriks • May 10 '19

Github announces a code quality tool called: GitGud

Jack Harner 🚀 • May 10 '19

Github For Samsung Fridge.

Tierney Cyren • May 10 '19

git snack

Jack Harner 🚀 • May 10 '19

"Err: You have unfinished snacks out. Please finish or return your unfinished snacks before grabbing another one"

Laurie • May 10 '19

The timing really does stick out, as Ben mentioned. It feels like it isn't an acquisition. If it's relevant to developers and something the market may not like I'd have to think it's related to open sourcing something or giving something additional away for free? No idea what that would look like though.

Vuild • May 10 '19

Coin or token.

Tierney Cyren • May 10 '19

I’m curious what the motivation behind that would be 🤔

Vuild • May 10 '19

30% commission?

😭

j/k

Dev pay for fixing tech.

Tierney Cyren • May 10 '19

Interesting idea. How would you personally go about implementing and incentivizing that so it was sustainable?

Vuild • May 10 '19 • Edited

Ok, but I get to pick the name.

Backed by [a] giant business(es) to be able to top 10 (marketing/support) long term. Ahem.
Ask the public for general feedback. Non tech, non 'study groups'. Real, poorer devs & devs who drive things but are not close to you. Who argue & dissent. Early "yes" = late no. Haters. Lots of haters.
Form a team of experts. Ask the Satoshis, Vitaliks, Craigs, Mikes, Dragonchains, bnbs, Geminis, Krakens, nanos, whalepandas & etcs (sorry if I missed you, there's so many). Talk to the young kids that have been taught crypto for off the wall ideas.
Distribute well (founders don't need a large % for once as they are already sustained).
Use my megacorp power to bring on money givers/buyers for better open sourcing.
Decentralize Github (parts, not whole). Do you want it to exist in 100yrs or secure share today? All code in one place is single point of failure. Legacy > Profit. No more moon tapes. Rewards for societal improvement are large & lasting.
Decentralized infrastructure repos (not private business ones) for core, universal stuff that eveyone needs (politics/incentive free vote machines. Swiss checking Brazilian code & vice versa). You can't manipulate my copy when you get in power (power shifts, always). Issues show fast. No single point of failure. DREPO.
Pay devs for building it out in coin & then to work on the most important open source projects that help infrastucture (street light efficiency, heart monitor software I guess). Humanity projects. TCP/IP type principles. Then random island X can have state-of-the-art efficient street lights like Norway (or wherever). That is game changing, just with what Github has already. With gold rush decentralized incentive? Hardest lives improved (this will drive devs hard I believe, with coin). Quickly. Treat the world as the platform to build things for profit on rather than profit-platforms (you can see where it always leads).
Allow bounty for private companies. If you turn up as a dev, fix my git issues & suggest a push, my co. can coin you. Great for job hunting, careeer & brand building. Attract the best by Taylor’s Motivation.
Fund support (help/videos/events/contests/airdrops/inclusion/legacy/whatever).
Governance I won't address in a list (at the moment crypto governance is making me think about gold).
Platform. Fresh (GITS - though, to Brits, Gits are something different), could be an existing (ETH/DRGN/EOS/other) or new coin or token. Not worth addressing without discussion/research/plans.
Bill of GITS. "Any GITS for anyone anywhere." type stuff. Rules that allow all businesses & people to use the GITS without concern of private company influence.
List on exchanges. Create the market. Create a foundation. Fund 1000yrs of hosting in advance. Free core code/framework for dev profits created by gold rush economics while on trend for the next generation to benefit from without losing sleep that the server/company/town/backups/tapes get lost to time.
Sustainability comes from HODL value, depth of infrastructure penetration (are only devs using coins or has it grown to be the only crypto left? Well, except Doge. 🥰).

When Dev.to buys MS & merges it brutally, your GITS & DREPOs 👈 🤯 will live on beyond Ben's reach. You can form a hub of devs with GITS/DREPOs & start to take back control.

I think that covers a lot of the core elements, details can be ironed out.

Something like that I guess.