Our Handbook is open source: here's why

derekja wrote: post #3

sytse wrote: post #2

I'll be around for 30 minutes to answer any questions.

Nice, thanks for posting that! You all are doing things right.

Thanks derekja.

Re: Our Handbook is open source: here's why

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Post by sytse » Thu, Jul 14, 2016, 5:26 AM UTC

I'm almost going to bed (it is 10:30pm in San Francisco) but I thought it might be interesting to share some deep links:

The marketing team has their OKR embedded in the handbook https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/#okrs

If we meet our sales target everyone in the company gets a free dinner https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/#sales-target-dinner

There is a pretty sweet Kramdown SSG guideline https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/developer-relati...

It is always sad to see people go, but it happens and after the decision is made we do have a checklist for the process https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/offboarding/

A recent addition (thanks Eliran) has been our remote coffee break calls https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/#coffee-break-calls

Re: Our Handbook is open source: here's why

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Post by Odenwaelder » Thu, Jul 14, 2016, 6:04 AM UTC

sytse wrote: post #2

I'll be around for 30 minutes to answer any questions.

Thank you for free unlimited private repos and GitLab CI. This made me switch from GitHub.

Re: Our Handbook is open source: here's why

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Post by sytse » Thu, Jul 14, 2016, 6:12 AM UTC

Odenwaelder wrote: post #6

sytse wrote: post #2

I'll be around for 30 minutes to answer any questions.

Thank you for free unlimited private repos and GitLab CI. This made me switch from GitHub.

Glad to hear that. We'll try to keep providing amazing value on GitLab.com. We working on introducing a browser IDE and review apps.

Re: Our Handbook is open source: here's why

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Post by leetrout » Thu, Jul 14, 2016, 6:16 AM UTC

Just absolutely fantastic values for work-life balance and certainly makes GitLab look _very_ appealing...

Some of my favorites:

We're a distributed, remote-only company where people work remote without missing out. For this, we use asynchronous communication and are as open as we can be by communicating through public issues, chat channels, and placing an emphasis on ensuring that conclusions of offline conversations are written down. https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/#communication

Don't frown on people taking time off, but rather encourage that people take care of themselves and others. https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/#paid-time-off

Runbooks for the on-call person for common issues https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/runbooks

Edit: Link formatting

Re: Our Handbook is open source: here's why

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Post by kriro » Thu, Jul 14, 2016, 6:51 AM UTC

Pretty interesting that you use "1password (PeopleOps vault)". I guess I never thought about using PW-vaults in a corporate setting. Seems like an interesting approach (compared to some alternatives I know that don't work well).

Re: Our Handbook is open source: here's why

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Post by deanclatworthy » Thu, Jul 14, 2016, 7:10 AM UTC

Is your only source of income right now the paid hosted repos? If so, how do you plan to scale that to support a staff of over 100 as well as compete with GitHub and Bitbucket who already have a huge market share?