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Are there any non-technical people at GH? Would you consider hiring any? Why or why not?
(Full disclosure: I'm an engineer just coming off of a bad experience with a 'business' co-founder)
In what ways have you found aspiring hackers participating in open source projects use Github to become competent hackers? Also, thanks for the very inspiring talk at Startup School.
In the future, participating in open source will be the best way to land a great job. When employers see that you have a demonstrable ability to code and work well in a team, you have a MUCH more likely chance of getting that interview and impressing the right people at that company you'd kill to work for.
Do Github employees get equity?
Do you think that's a fair comment? Is it something you think is necessarily negative?
Talk about how you started getting out into the community and connecting with real users. IE - how you got Github drinkups off the ground. As a company with a small but growing number of happy developers around our platform (notifo.com), we'd love to attempt something similar. We are thinking about doing things like API contests to help grow the community as well as occasional meetups. unrelated- whose idea was it to…
We decided that we wanted to take that part of the meetup and make it a first class citizen, so we started the GitHub Drinkups. If there's one thing that I've learned about leadership, it's that all people need in order to participate in something is an invitation.
So my advice is this: whatever you're thinking about doing, just do it. You'll find out quickly what does and does not work. If nobody comes to the meetup or nobody signs up for the contest, then shrug it off and figure out what you need to change in order to make it work.
I don't remember whose idea the Pappy was. We like to present GitHub as a fun, edgy company. This has worked out really well at getting the attention of early adopters. Giving out booze was a great way to point at the "establishment" and make fun of how stodgy and limiting they are.
Fancy a beer next week?
Is there any concern at all about alcoholism at Github given the success of your drinkups? For instance, does the health plan now cover rehab and alcohol induced cirrhosis?