Git is the answer. What was the question?
Facing Forward
- Version control
- Git
- Collaboration
- Infrastructure
Abstract for Print (1000 characters maximum):
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Git and its Web wrappers are transformational technologies
- enabling greater collaboration and productivity,
- making openness more affordable,
- and opening direct participation in "development" to a wider audience than traditional developers.
This talk
- introduces Git, GitHub, and GitLab
- illustrates their use in software development
- illustrates their use in "development" of things that feel less like "software"
- argues that Git can add value to almost every endeavor university IT, and indeed a university generally, undertakes.
and concludes with a call-to-action to collaborate more, more openly, and with more panache using great source control technology in Git and great Web UIs wrapped around Git, and to help your higher education colleagues to do so.
In Git higher education IT has an opportunity to facilitate the university's success in exercising technology supportive "that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found".
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There's untapped potential in higher education practice to share and collaborate more and more effectively, potential created by the barriers-lowering and experience-improving properties of Git and its popular Web wrappers. This talk attempts to shed light on this potential.
This conference proposal was developed in a Git repo, of course, because Git adds value to most anything that can be represented in a text file.
Git and university provision of Git solutions, whether in the cloud or on-premise, can support the university's academic and research missions and administrative functions, beyond just facilitating collaboration on software code.
- (all)
- (and more)
- Documentation
- Integration
- OpenSource
- Other
- Beginner
Nothing special.
"presentation"
Conference session presentations will run for 45 minutes with an open format. Presentations can be information sessions, panel discussions, or other speaking events. For information sessions, we recommend 30 minutes for the presentation and 15 minutes reserved for audience questions and answers. We DO NOT require presentations to center on Apereo products or projects. When developing presentations, please consider the issues, opportunities, and innovations that are most central to best practices, fundamental values, and/or success in technology-enabled teaching, learning, and research.
- Andrew Petro, andrew.petro@wisc.edu, Product Backlog Manager - MyUW - Division of Information Technology, UW-Madison