Your browser doesn't support the features required by impress.js, so you are presented with a simplified version of this presentation.

For the best experience please use the latest Chrome, Safari or Firefox browser.

The Next Cultural Commons

How the Internet has been quietly assembling the next cultural canon

 Classic Works

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • The Wealth of Nations
  • Beowolf

 The New Classics

  • Ruby
  • WordPress
  • Bootstrap

 Open Source Rules Everything Around Me

  • Powers the Internet
    (75% of top 10k)
  • Powers our democracy
    (Egypt, Project Open Data)

 What If We Lost All This

  • Bootstrap (50k)
  • Homebrew (12k)
  • Rails (18k)
  • html5-boilerplate (20k)
  • jQuery (20k)
  • Node (22k)
  • Backbone (14k), D3 (15k)
  • Linux (8k)
  • CodeIgniter, Symfony, Django (17k)
  • Foundation (11k)

 GitHub By The Numbers

  • 3.4M+ collaborators
  • 6.6M+ Projects
  • Largest code commons in the world
  • ~25 active federal agencies

 On The Average Day At GitHub.com…

  • 140GB of new data is pushed
  • 125k repositories are updated
  • 10k people push their very first repository to GitHub.com
  • 25k repositories are created
  • 7k pull requests are created
  • 10k people join GitHub.com

GitHub Activity

New Projects

Open Sourced Projects

Forked Projects

 Git

  • Tracks who made what change when
  • Distributed, everyone has a complete copy
  • Open source, open standards
  • Efficient, compression baked in
  • Cryptographic authentication of history

 Challenges And Next Steps

  • Storage Space
  • Frequency of changes
  • Original v. forks
  • Public v. private
  • Social layer