Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Features
Speaker Deck
PRO
Sign in
Sign up for free
Search
Search
GitHub, an egalitarian love story
Search
Brian Doll
November 03, 2012
Technology
4
740
GitHub, an egalitarian love story
Brian Doll
November 03, 2012
Tweet
Share
More Decks by Brian Doll
See All by Brian Doll
An unofficial guide to Apple’s Private Cloud Compute (PCC)
briandoll
0
44
Tell Me A Story
briandoll
1
540
Marketing Culture
briandoll
3
490
Striking Gold: Building software better, together
briandoll
3
560
Marketing for Geeks
briandoll
12
4.1k
Get Fit to Win
briandoll
0
290
The Ultimate Productivity Hack: Having Kids
briandoll
1
260
Other Decks in Technology
See All in Technology
Hardware/Software Co-design: Motivations and reflections with respect to security
bcantrill
1
220
SOC2は、取った瞬間よりその後が面白い
3flower
0
140
旬のブリと旬の技術で楽しむ AI エージェント設計開発レシピ
chack411
1
300
形式手法特論:コンパイラの「正しさ」は証明できるか? #burikaigi / BuriKaigi 2026
ytaka23
17
6.4k
VRTと真面目に向き合う
hiragram
1
210
The Engineer with a Three-Year Cycle
e99h2121
0
160
Databricks Free Edition講座 データエンジニアリング編
taka_aki
0
2.7k
エンジニアとして長く走るために気づいた2つのこと_大賀愛一郎
nanaism
0
210
ドメイン駆動セキュリティへの道しるべ
pandayumi
0
160
さくらのクラウドでのシークレット管理を考える/tamachi.sre#2
fujiwara3
1
210
ファインディにおけるフロントエンド技術選定の歴史
puku0x
2
1.6k
BPaaSオペレーション・kubell社内 n8n活用による効率化検証事例紹介
kentarofujii
0
190
Featured
See All Featured
Utilizing Notion as your number one productivity tool
mfonobong
2
200
[RailsConf 2023] Rails as a piece of cake
palkan
58
6.2k
[RailsConf 2023 Opening Keynote] The Magic of Rails
eileencodes
31
9.8k
Data-driven link building: lessons from a $708K investment (BrightonSEO talk)
szymonslowik
1
890
Everyday Curiosity
cassininazir
0
120
Conquering PDFs: document understanding beyond plain text
inesmontani
PRO
4
2.2k
Ten Tips & Tricks for a 🌱 transition
stuffmc
0
51
How to Talk to Developers About Accessibility
jct
1
100
Practical Tips for Bootstrapping Information Extraction Pipelines
honnibal
25
1.7k
Believing is Seeing
oripsolob
1
33
Navigating Algorithm Shifts & AI Overviews - #SMXNext
aleyda
0
1.1k
How to make the Groovebox
asonas
2
1.9k
Transcript
an egalitarian love story Photo of Paul Simonon by Pennie
Smith @briandoll
GitHub isn't a startup, it's a punk band that
makes software. - @rtomayko
GitHub is still an independent punk band. They're just
going with a major label distributor. - @shanev
Egalitarianism http://www.ragingchickenpress.org/
Equality for all Egalitarianism:
Rules Suck Egalitarianism:
Egalitarianism: Group Decision making
Egalitarianism: Decentralized control
"organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce
designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations" Conway’s Law: /via @kneath
is egalitarian
all repositories are equal
choose your own workflow
collaboration without coordination
is egalitarian
Everyone can contribute
Pull requests are egalitarian
GitHub makes it easier to work together than
alone
tools -> people -> product ->
values -> taste -> tools -> people -> ...
is egalitarian software
/via @rtomayko’s OSS Constraints Constraints Electronic communication
/via @rtomayko’s OSS Constraints Constraints Available via URL
/via @rtomayko’s OSS Constraints Constraints Asynchronous
/via @rtomayko’s OSS Constraints Constraints Lock-free
is egalitarian (the company)
Influence over hierarchy
Contributions are made based on skills, interest and
company focus, not your job title
chat-based office is location independent
No rules, but 5 core values
Optimize for happiness values
Best argument wins values
Make decisions from first principals values
Create superfans values
Be awesome and change the world values
You, your projects and your company are egalitarian
How can you improve equality?
What rules are really necessary?
How can you best make decisions?
How are you going to change the world?
Thank You! Questions? @briandoll