Talks

Slides (and recordings) from some of the talks I've given over the years. Have a suggestion? I'd love to hear it.

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

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

Software developer as civic service

The revolution will be forked: how open collaboration is reimagining the way government works

Make Government better together: Moving from open government to collaborative government

Law and policy

· 3 talks

Open source software licensing: empowering others to use your code

Collaborative policy making: how technology is making it easier to work together than alone

Project open data: a case study in collaborative governance

Mapping and GeoJSON

· 2 talks

Open source, open standards, and 50 lines of code: a look behind GitHub's GeoJSON rendering and diffing

Make maps better together: Collaborative mapping the Open Source Way

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

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