Through dubious television coverage on GitHub, some publicity on technology-supported collaboration have surfaced. Business Insider reported:
Fox Business tried to use a bunch of coder lingo in a report on social coding startup GitHub — and failed. [….]
The coders and developers over on Hacker News have been dissecting the video all day.
- Fox Business Did A Profile Of Github And Silicon Valley Is Cringing | Jillian D’Onfro | Sept. 13, 2013 at http://www.businessinsider.com/fox-business-newsat-github-2013-9
While there is technology involved, the challenge is better described as a change in style on collaboration around artifacts. In an interview at Disrupt SF 2013, Tom Preston-Werner, co-founder of Github, said:
… Read more (in a new tab)It’s looking more about what’s possible in the world of collaboration. It’s more about people’s behaviour. It’s more about what they’re doing.
If people are using e-mail a lot, to share documents back and forth, this is a huge problem. The work that people do needs to be next to the communication they do. This is our vision for the future. And this is why Github puts communication mechanisms, pull requests, like having discussions around work changes, and being able to document them, put them next to the files that people are working on. Most often it’s code, but put those things together.
The challenge, the real competitor is behavioral. It’s the technologies in general that we’re using, and e-mail primarily. It’s getting people away from the mentaliity that everything can be accomplished via e-mail, and that’s the best solution.
Through dubious television coverage on GitHub, some publicity on technology-supported collaboration have surfaced. Business Insider reported:
Fox Business tried to use a bunch of coder lingo in a report on social coding startup GitHub — and failed. [….]
The coders and developers over on Hacker News have been dissecting the video all day.
- Fox Business Did A Profile Of Github And Silicon Valley Is Cringing | Jillian D’Onfro | Sept. 13, 2013 at http://www.businessinsider.com/fox-business-newsat-github-2013-9
While there is technology involved, the challenge is better described as a change in style on collaboration around artifacts. In an interview at Disrupt SF 2013, Tom Preston-Werner, co-founder of Github, said:
… Read more (in a new tab)It’s looking more about what’s possible in the world of collaboration. It’s more about people’s behaviour. It’s more about what they’re doing.
If people are using e-mail a lot, to share documents back and forth, this is a huge problem. The work that people do needs to be next to the communication they do. This is our vision for the future. And this is why Github puts communication mechanisms, pull requests, like having discussions around work changes, and being able to document them, put them next to the files that people are working on. Most often it’s code, but put those things together.
The challenge, the real competitor is behavioral. It’s the technologies in general that we’re using, and e-mail primarily. It’s getting people away from the mentaliity that everything can be accomplished via e-mail, and that’s the best solution.
