GitHub, an egalitarian love story

1. an  egalitarian love  story Photo of Paul Simonon by Pennie Smith @briandoll
2. GitHub  isn't  a  startup,   it's  a  punk  band  that   makes  software. -­  @rtomayko
3. GitHub  is  still  an   independent  punk  band. They're  just  going  with  a   major  label  distributor. -­  @shanev
4. Egalitarianism http://www.ragingchickenpress.org/
5. Equality  for  all Egalitarianism:
6. Rules  Suck Egalitarianism:
7. Egalitarianism: Group  Decision  making
8. Egalitarianism: Decentralized  control
9. "organizations  which  design  systems  ...   are  constrained  to  produce  designs   which  are  copies  of  the  communication   structures  of  these  organizations" Conway’s  Law: /via  @kneath
10. is  egalitarian
11. all  repositories   are  equal
12. choose  your   own  workflow
13. collaboration   without   coordination
14. is  egalitarian
15. Everyone  can   contribute
16. Pull  requests are  egalitarian
17. GitHub  makes  it   easier  to  work   together  than  alone
18. tools  -­>    people  -­>        product  -­>            values  -­>                taste  -­>                    tools  -­>                        people  -­>                            ...
19. is  egalitarian software
20. /via  @rtomayko’s  OSS  Constraints Constraints Electronic   communication
21. /via  @rtomayko’s  OSS  Constraints Constraints Available via  URL
22. /via  @rtomayko’s  OSS  Constraints Constraints Asynchronous
23. /via  @rtomayko’s  OSS  Constraints Constraints Lock-­free
24. is  egalitarian (the  company)
25. Influence  over   hierarchy
26. Contributions are    made  based  on skills,  interest  and   company  focus, not  your  job  title
27. chat-­based   office  is   location   independent
28. No  rules,  but 5  core  values
29. Optimize  for happiness values
30. Best  argument   wins values
31. Make  decisions   from first  principals values
32. Create   superfans values
33. Be  awesome  and   change  the  world values
34. You,  your  projects   and  your  company   are  egalitarian
35. How  can  you   improve  equality?
36. What  rules  are   really  necessary?
37. How  can  you  best   make  decisions?
38. How  are  you  going  to change  the  world?
39. Thank  You! Questions? @briandoll