Lunch & Learn – GitHub, it’s way more than you think!

GitHub is a Web-based Git repository hosting service, which offers distributed revision control and source code management for collaborations.

The site provides social networking-like functions such as feeds, followers, wikis (using wiki software called Gollum) and a social network graph to display how developers work on their versions (“forks“) of a repository.

Originally created by Linus Torvalds for the collaborative development of Linux people usually think of Git(Hub) as a tool for collaborative software development. GitHub offers many other exciting uses in building collaboration communities of all kinds.

Tech-on-Tap member Dan Cundiff is the architect of Target’s API platform: api.target.com AND works remotely from Evansville guiding the strategy and managing a team supporting api.target.com. 

Some things about Dan you might find interesting:

• Speaker at: API Strategy Conference, Cassandra Summit, Jenkins User Conference, RSA Conference, Apps World North America, Splunk .conf, Gartner AADI
• Co-created TgtWiki; a company wide wiki, based on Mediawiki, started on a server under my desk and has grown to 142,000+ articles and over 1.5 million edits. (http://www.fastcompany.com/3001988/how-targets-ceo-inspires-teamwork-massive-scale)
• Co-created REDtalk; a company wide twitter clone, also started on a server under my desk, used all the way up to our CEO, and became the catalyst for the current social tools we use now
• The top holder of patents at Target
• Write for Target on their Target Tech blog (http://target.github.io/) and Pulse blog (https://pulse.target.com/author/dan/)

Come hear Dan speak about GitHub — whether you’re a developer or project manager, there’s something for everyone to learn about GitHub. We’ll cover the common uses to the lesser known tricks and benefits.

We provide the space and content YOU PROVIDE YOUR LUNCH. HoneyBaked Ham located at Innovation Pointe will take call in orders and can have your sandwich ready for pick up and pay.<a>(812) 492-4567</a>

Doors will open at noon. Presentation will begin at 12:15.

We will be in the first floor media suite at Innovation Pointe – see you there!