The GitHub Blog: Meetups

We're happy to announce a Patchwork hack night on Tuesday, September 30, 2014 at GitHub HQ.

No coding experience needed

Patchwork is a hands-on workshop for learning Git and GitHub. Join us for a night of hacking and snacking, and make some new friends while you're at it!

Forks you don't eat with? Branches not made of wood?

Newcomers to Git and GitHub, you'll be creating your own open source project. You will leave with a merged Pull Request, a square on your contributions graph, and confidence to get more involved in the open source community.

Mentors, if you've ever had a Pull Request merged, now's your chance to share the love and help someone else get started on this journey.

Learning is better together

Myself, @rachelmyers, @bleikamp, @chrissiebrodigan, @paulcbetts and other GitHub staff, and local community mentors will be on hand to answer your questions and help you create your first open source project and achieve your first merged Pull Request.

@jlord will kick the event off with a talk on how she got started in programming and a community member will close things out with a lightning talk on their experience in open source.

Details:

• For: Git and GitHub beginners.
• When? Tuesday, Sept 30 from 6:30-9:00pm.
• Where? GitHub HQ, 88 Colin P Kelly Jr St (at Brannan St), San Francisco, CA 94107
• RSVP:
  • Want to learn Git and Github? RSVP as an attendee.
  • Want to help guide future open source maintainers and contributors? RSVP as a mentor.

Mentors, you'll receive an email a few days before the event with details about what to expect and the curriculum. We'll be teaching Git concepts and making a Pull Request using the GitHub Flow.

GitHub is proudly sponsoring HACKMemphis this weekend. @jameswhite and I will be down visiting and would like to buy you a or and talk about whatever strikes you mood. We do enjoy a good DIY discussion!

Let's meet up at Fox and Hound! If you're in town for the conference, or happen to live in the Memphis, come on down and say hello and have some of your favorite adult or non-adult beverages on us!

The Details

• When: Thursday, September 18 @ 6:00 PM
• Where: 5101 Sanderlin Road, Suite 100 Memphis TN 38117

We're happy to announce a Patchwork hack night on Thursday, September 18, 2014, co-hosted with our friends at Dev Bootcamp NYC's campus.

No coding experience needed

Patchwork is a hands-on workshop for learning Git and GitHub. Join us for a night of hacking and snacking, and make some new friends while you're at it!

Forks you don't eat with? Branches not made of wood?

Newcomers to Git and GitHub, you'll leave with a merged Pull Request, a square on your contributions graph, and confidence to get more involved in the open source community.

Mentors, if you've ever had a Pull Request merged, now's your chance to share the love and help someone else create some magic.

Learning is better together

Myself, @chrissiebrodigan @dewski @rothsa @balevine @bleikamp @rachelmyers and other GitHub staff, and local community mentors will be on hand to answer your questions and help you achieve your first merged Pull Request.

@aroben will kick the event off with a talk on how he got started in programming and a community member will close things out with a lightning talk on an open source project.

Details:

• For: Git and GitHub beginners.
• When? Thursday, September 18 from 6:30-9:00pm.
• Where? Dev Bootcamp's office at 48 Wall St, New York, NY 10005
• RSVP:
  • Want to learn Git and Github? RSVP as an attendee.
  • Want to help guide future open source maintainers and contributors? RSVP as a mentor.

Once registered, you'll receive an email a few days before the event with details on what to have installed on your computer so you can hit the ground running.

We're happy to announce a Patchwork hack night at GitHub's new Boulder office.

No coding experience required!

Patchwork is a hands-on workshop for learning Git and GitHub. We'd love for you to join us. There will be snacks for fortified hackin', lots to learn, and new friends to be made.

Forks you don't eat with? Branches not made of wood?

Newcomers to Git and GitHub, you'll leave with a merged pull request, a square on your contributions graph, and confidence to get more involved in the open source community.

Mentors, if you've ever had a pull request merged, come help others feel that warm glow of accomplishment!

Learning is better together

Myself, @jdmaturen, @derekgr, @kateguarente, @technoweenie (our speaker), @nathansobo (creator of Atom.io), other GitHub staff, and community mentors will be on hand to answer your questions and help you achieve your first merged pull request.

Details:

• For: Git and GitHub beginners.
• When? Thursday, August 14th from 6:00-9:00pm.
• Where? GitHub's Boulder office, 1300 Walnut St., Suite 101, Boulder, CO 80302
• RSVP:
  • Want to learn Git and Github? RSVP as an attendee.
  • Want to help guide future open source maintainers and contributors? RSVP as a mentor.

Once registered, you'll receive an email a few days before the event with details on what to have installed on your computer so you can hit the ground running.

We'll be at OSCON next week and you're invited to join us on Wednesday, July 23 at 6:30pm for Pub Quiz Night at Spirit of 77 in Portland, OR, co-hosted with Fastly. Even if you aren't attending OSCON come down for bar bites, beers, and showing off your open source knowledge in the pub quiz. Space is limited, so please RSVP

The Details:

• Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from 6:30pm - 9:30pm
• Spirit of 77, 500 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland
• No team necessary for the pub quiz, we'll help you find one
• Please RSVP

It's time for another Patchwork night at GitHub HQ, next Thursday, July 10th!

Patchwork nights are hands-on help sessions for people new to Git and GitHub. You'll leave with a merged pull request on an open source project, green squares on your contribution graph, and the excited feeling of learning a lot of new tips and tricks to keep going strong on your own!

If you want to help mentor future open sourcers, this night is for you, too. Along with other GitHubbers (including some in-SF-for-a-limited-time-only 'Hubbers @muan, @mikemcquaid, and @michaeltwofish!), you'll help attendees with questions throughout the evening. Wondering if you have what it takes? If you know Git, GitHub or you've been to one of our Patchwork nights in SF or London then you've got all the skills necessary to be a Patchwork mentor! We'd to see you again!

To mix things up in a really inspiring way, GitHub's own @alysonla will be joining us to talk about how she got started in open source. There will be food, drinks, and new friends to meet.

Also, no coding experience required! RSVP here.

Details:

• Who: Git and GitHub beginners and mentors
• When: Thursday, July 10th, 2014 6p - 9p
• Where: GitHub HQ, 88 Colin P. Kelly Jr. St., San Francisco, CA

Photo by @muan

We’re pleased to announce that we will be hosting a meetup at GitHub HQ to celebrate LGBT advocates in tech on Thursday June 26, during SF Pride Week. We hope to bring together those who are using technology to improve the lives of members of the LGBT community, hear some great speakers, and to have some fun mingling and celebrating Pride.

We’re honored to be able to host these incredible speakers below and excited to hear about their respective organizations, projects, and how people can get involved:

• Monica Arrambide: The Maven Project

• Kortney Ziegler: Trans*H4CK

• Matt Conn: GaymerX

Registration details: The meetup will take place on Thursday, June 26 from 6pm-10pm at GitHub HQ. Register now to attend!

GitHub is coming to Portsmouth (UK)!

Come join @arfon at The White Swan on Tuesday, June 24th at 7:00pm and enjoy some of the finest cask ales, draught beers and wines in Portsmouth.

The Facts:

• Tuesday, June 24th, 7:00pm-10pm
• The White Swan (Brewhouse and Kitchen), 26 Guildhall Walk, Portsmouth, PO1 2DD, United Kingdom

A good number of Hubbers are descending on London for Enterprise Apps World and Patchwork. So we thought it would be the perfect time for a GitHub Meetup.

Join @andrew, @chrissiebrodigan, @lukehefson, @muan, @mikemcquaid, @leereilly, @tjl2, @shiftkey and more on Thursday, 19th June at The Electricity Showrooms for and general merry-making.

The Facts:

• The Electricity Showrooms - 39 Hoxton Sq., Hoxton, United Kingdom
• Thursday, June 19 at 7:30pm
• Old Street is the closest tube
• The meetup will kick off at the basement bar with a light-up dancefloor!

Come on out and meet your fellow London techies - Everyone is welcome!

東京のGitHubユーザーグループが主催するGitHub Kaigi(6月1日)に参加するためにGitHubのメンバー(@cobyism, @devinreams, @dice, @dsorkin, @jordanmccullough, @kansaichris, @nathansobo)6月1日に東京に行きます。Kaigi前後に開催されるいくつかのイベントにも参加をします。皆さまにお会いできるのを楽しみにしています！

A GitHub user group in Tokyo is organizing an event, GitHub Kaigi on June 1st, and a number of GitHubbers (@cobyism, @devinreams, @dice, @dsorkin, @jordanmccullough, @kansaichris, @nathansobo) will be in town to participate. There are also a few events before and after GitHub Kaigi that are being organized by our friends in Japan. We are looking forward to meeting up with you in Japan.

ライブストリーム/Note

GitHub Kaigiと勉強会の内容はGitHub Kaigiのホームページでライブストリームを行います。

GitHub Kaigi and all the subsequent seminars will be streamed live on the GitHub Kaigi home page.

懇親会/Meetup

5月30日にDeployGate社が渋谷にあるオフィスでGitHubとの共同Meetupを開催します。GitHub Kaigiに参加出来なかった方は是非このMeetupに登録をしてください。登録はこのページから可能です。

DeployGate is organizing a Meetup at their office in Shibuya for the evening of May 30th. This meetup is for folks that will not or can not attend GitHub Kaigi. Please sign up for the meetup here.

勉強会/Seminars

6月3日の週に大阪、京都、東京でGitHubのデザイナー、開発者とトレイニングチームのメンバーによる勉強会を開催します。詳しくは下記のテーブル内にあるリンク先を御覧ください。今回はそれぞれテーマが違います。

There will be three seminars in the week of June 3rd, in Osaka, Kyoto and Tokyo. Speakers from the design, engineering, and training teams will be speaking. You'll find more information in the table below.

Come share some and on GitHub, Friday May 30th at 19:00! @danishkhan and @joewadcan will be at Halbite 3 to hang out with our local GitHub users in Sofia. We'll be in town for the Bulgaria Web Summit 2014 but our meetup is open to all our GitHub fans in the area. We'd love to meet you and chat for a while! There's also a playground, so feel free to bring your kids. If the weather cooperates, we can relax and enjoy our in the outdoor patio.

The Facts: Friday May 30th at 19:00 (7pm) Halbite 3 - Cherkovna str. 41, Sofia, Bulgaria

Come enjoy snacks and drinks this Wednesday, May 14th at Faro! I'll be in town speaking at HelsinkiJS and then looking forward to meeting the lovely GitHub users in Helsinki to talk about all things GitHub .

The Facts:

• Wednesday, May 14th, 21:30
• Faro, Kellosaarenranta 2, 00180 Helsinki

Come hang out with @matthewmccullough and @brntbeer on Monday, May 12th at Teerenpeli! We will be attending the Turku Agile Day conference, hanging out with the organizers and speakers Monday night, and would love to hear about your favorite open source projects you are currently working on.

Teerenpeli is conveniently located near the market square and opposite the hotel Hamburger Börs.

The Facts:

• When: Monday, May 12th at 19:00
• Where: Teerenpeli, Eriksgatan 8, Turku, Finland 20100

@afeld, @rothsa, @azizshamim, @asenchi, @technicalpickles, @chrishunt, @gorsuch (and more) ...a lively bunch of Hubbers are in town and we're ready to drink like the

Come say hello – is on us! That's 100+ loose leaf teas, 10+ chai lattes, bubble tea, kombucha (Townshend's Kombucha is our local Portland brand)... lots of stuff you haven't tried before. If you don't like tea, come for the atmosphere.

• When: Thursday, May 8th, 7:30-9:30pm
• Where: Townshend’s Alberta Street Teahouse, 2223 NE Alberta Street, Portland, OR 97211

Come share a smörgåsbord of platters and beverages on GitHub on Saturday, May 10th, at Hemma. @cobyism and @benogle will be in town for ScotlandJS, but come along even if you aren't attending the conference (like @mikemcquaid who is lucky enough to live here).

The Facts:

• Saturday, May 10th at 20:00
• Hemma, 75 Holyrood Road, Edinburgh, EH8 8AU