The document discusses key features of GitHub including hosting code repositories, encouraging contributions through gamification, easy forking and pull requests, and using Markdown for documentation. GitHub lowers barriers for contributing to projects and promotes developers and their work.

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2. What’s it all about?

3. collaborating on projects
making git
easier to manage
sharing your code...
...with the world
kudos
forking repositories
grouping your
projects
resolving issues

4. [ it’s their old logo, but it still fits. ]
Open Source
+ Social Networking

5. GitHub...
● Hosts your code repositories.
● Lowers the barriers to entry for you to
contribute to other projects.
● Promotes you & your contributions.

6. It’s Gamification!
GitHub encourages you to
contribute to the development
community, through
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Repo & Page hosting
Gists
Wikis
Stats & Graphs
Issues Management
Easy Pull Requests
Easy Forking
All of which shows up on your profile!

7. Key Concepts

8. Creating a repository
it’s easy!
it’s just like in any other
web-based git repository

9. Forking repositories
● Repositories are editable only by their owner.
● Forking creates a separate copy of the original
repository which ‘belongs’ to you.
● Forks are like branches they can be merged back
into the original repository as
contributions.

10. Contributing to other repositories
● Found a bug? Fork it, Fix it and submit a Pull Request.
● Not worth Forking? You can edit files straight away
through the GitHub web interface.
● Creating or resolving issues, or
adding or editing Documentation
also counts as contributing.

11. Getting help & tracking issues
● GitHub repositories have built-in issue tracking.
● Raise an issue or feature request on a project to get
some support from its author.
● It has all the snazzy features
you’d expect.

12. Using Pages to promote your work
● GitHub can host a static website
straight from a repository.
● Can use the jekyll static site generator,
or just upload plain old HTML.
● Content created on the gh-pages branch
of a repository becomes the website.

13. GitHub-flavoured Markdown
● Even without a Pages website, documentation is an
important part of successful projects, and Markdown
syntax is a big part of that.
● GitHub-flavoured Markdown is an enhanced version of
Markdown, and has a nice editor.
● README.md files get shown alongside your source
code in the GitHub interface.

14. So, why GitHub?

16. GitHub Stats
● 6 years old
● 10 million repos

17. It’s all about the community.