Benefits of GitHub Community
14mAdvanced2023-10-04
Authors

Ray Villalobos
Senior Staff Instructor at LinkedIn Learning
Course details
GitHub is about code, yes, but it's a very social approach to code. In this course, Ray Villalobos highlights ways to work with your community, internal or external, on your projects. Explore the concepts behind open source and learn how you can support the open source community. Find out how GitHub supports open source and how you can get notifications on what community members and organizations are working on. Discover the benefits of the GitHub marketplace and the uses you may have for Innersource. Learn about forking and how to make repositories discoverable. Plus, go over how to create issue templates and pull request templates.
Skills covered
Version ControlGitHubSoftware Development ToolsSoftware DevelopmentOne-Off
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Why the GitHub community is important
1. Benefits of the open source community
- 02 - What is Open Source
- 03 - Sponsoring and being sponsored
- 04 - How GitHub supports open source
- 05 - Community members and organizations
- 06 - The benefits of the GitHub marketplace
2. Open Source Applications
- 07 - What is Innersource
- 08 - What is Forking
- 09 - Discoverable repositories
- 10 - Creating issue templates
- 11 - Pull request templates
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