Talks and Presentations Slides (and recordings) from 25+ talks I've given over the years. Have a suggestion? I'd love to hear it. 🤝 Community management 🌐 Collaboration and open source ⚙️ Software development and workflows 🏛️ Open government 📜 Law and policy 🗺️ Mapping and GeoJSON ✨ Miscellaneous 🤝 Community management · 3 talks A community of communities: Empowering maintainers to grow communities around their code It takes a digital village: An analytical-ish look at what grows strong communities on GitHub.com Growing open source communities on GitHub around your WordPress plugin or theme 🌐 Collaboration and open source · 6 talks Fostering a culture of collaboration Closed source (just) a few things Best practices for open source in government Open source licensing by the numbers Open source demystified: from command-line to community engagement source Open collaboration: why you should give open source a second look ⚙️ Software development and workflows · 5 talks How to work like an open source project, regardless of what you do How GitHub works like an open source project Three simple rules for building APIs Code, Test, Deploy: How to :ship: software like a startup Rapid development, testing, and deployment the open source way 🏛️ Open government · 4 talks What government can learn from open source slides Software developer as civic service The revolution will be forked: how open collaboration is reimagining the way government works source Make Government better together: Moving from open government to collaborative government source 📜 Law and policy · 3 talks Open source software licensing: empowering others to use your code source Collaborative policy making: how technology is making it easier to work together than alone source Project open data: a case study in collaborative governance video 🗺️ Mapping and GeoJSON · 2 talks Open source, open standards, and 50 lines of code: a look behind GitHub's GeoJSON rendering and diffing source Make maps better together: Collaborative mapping the Open Source Way video ✨ Miscellaneous · 2 talks A benbalter-centric history of GitHub Pages and Autoblog The next cultural commons: how the internet has been quietly assembling the next cultural cannon source More talks on Speaker Deck →