Showing posts with label GitHub. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GitHub. Show all posts

Friday, 26 July 2013

Bloomberg and NBBJ bring us Data vs. Delight!!!!!!


On Thursday, July 18th, 2013 at 6:30pm at Bloomberg San Francisco NBBJ and Bloomberg, held an event to discuss whether or not we should the workplace of today be driven by people analytics. Experts from leading technology companies in the fields of social sciences and architecture debate work in the era of mobility, big data and the cloud.

The Moderator

Peter Burrows, Senior Correspondent for Bloomberg Businessweek. Peter Burrows is based in San Francisco. Previously, he was senior correspondent in Silicon Valley. Burrows joined BusinessWeek in 1993 in Dallas. Prior to BusinessWeek, he was a senior editor for Electronic Business. Burrows wrote Backfire: Carly Fiorina's High-Stakes Battle for the Soul of Hewlett-Packard.

The Panel

Scott Chacon is the CIO and co-founder of GitHub, where he is currently overseeing the design and build out of the company’s new headquarters, from HVAC to bike racks and everything in between. A long time Git evangelist, Scott is the author of the Pro Git book by Apress and the maintainer of the Git homepage. He has presented at dozens of conferences around the world on Git, GitHub, and the future of work. 

Marina Gorbis is a futurist and social scientist who serves as Executive Director to the Institute for the Future (IFTF), a Silicon Valley nonprofit research and consulting organization.Marina’s current research focuses on how social production is changing the face of major industries, a topic explored in detail in her book, The Nature of the Future.

As Senior Director of Human Resources, Britt Sellin’s role is to enable Cloudera and its employees to be as effective as possible, while reflecting the best of open source - collaborative, communicative and open. Prior to joining Cloudera, Britt held senior positions at VMware and Sun Microsystems, as it expanded from 12,500 employees to 44,000.

Evan Wittenberg is Chief of People, SVP, People at Box. As chief human resources officer, he leads a team that finds, develops and retains the company’s talent while maintaining the unique culture at Box. Prior to joining Box, Evan was Hewlett-Packard’s Chief Talent Officer where he was responsible for a global workforce of 350,000 employees.

Scott Wyatt, Architect and Managing Partner, NBBJ is an NBBJ Managing Partner, overseeing the talents, accomplishments and business strategies of the firm’s ten offices. Scott has led the creation of new global headquarters for some of the world’s foremost corporations including Boeing, Samsung, Reebok, Telenor, Adobe, Amgen and the Frank Russell Company. 

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Wednesday, 17 July 2013

Developers are the new kings… but why?

Developers are the new kings… but why? (via Pando Daily)
By Carmel DeAmicis On July 16, 2013 Developers are the new kings – or at least, that’s what the founders of GitHub, Stripe, New Relic, and Mixpanel would have you believe. The leaders of these four startups got together in a roundtable today to discuss…


Wednesday, 3 July 2013

Factor.io helps you integrate your workflow!!!!!!!!!!!


Factor.io lets developers automate the most tedious processes in minutes, not weeks, so they can ship with ease. Factor.io is a service that makes it easy for developers to define and integrate their continuous deployment and integration workflow.


Development teams spend over 30% of their developer resources building the process for deploying and managing their apps and infrastructure, like “Deploy my app to AWS when I push to Github”. Most of this time is spent glueing together numerous services (e.g. Github, AWS, Hipchat) and technologies (e.g. Chef, Salt Stack) to work in a cohesive workflow. Factor.io relieves developers of building this veneer layer of glue by connecting all the services and technologies using a simple workflow.

Here is a video with Maciej Skierkowski, Co-Founder and CEO of Factor.io:


Saturday, 22 June 2013

Tom Preston-Werner: If you only hire in the Valley, you don’t have the best !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tom Preston-Werner: If you only hire in the Valley, you don’t have the best talent (via Pando Daily)
By Sarah Lacy On June 21, 2013 I always love when a member of the audience asks our guest a more insightful question than I do. It takes a village, people! Last night, one of our attendees asked GitHub’s CEO and co-founder Tom Preston-Werner about how he runs GitHub as a distributed company. You…


Friday, 21 June 2013

GitHub CEO Tom Preston-Werner: Product development is like chasing dragons!!!!!!!!!!

GitHub CEO Tom Preston-Werner: Product development is like chasing dragons (via Pando Daily)
By Nathaniel Mott On June 20, 2013 GitHub CEO Tom Preston-Werner likes to make things — so much so that he compared coding and developing software to chasing dragons during tonight’s PandoMonthly event. “You have a breakthrough. You make something on the Internet work,” he said. “This thing…