GitHub Universe is approaching, and this year, we're returning once again to Pier 70 in San Francisco October 10-12. As part of our efforts to make our conferences inclusive of people from all walks of life and enrich the experience for everyone, we're excited to offer free tickets through scholarships and community partners.

• Community partners: GitHub's Social Impact Team is joining forces with several non-profits and meet-up groups that focus on increasing the number of people in the tech industry who come from underrepresented backgrounds
• Individual scholarships: If you're interested in an individual scholarship, please fill out an application. Our team will get back to you if you're awarded a scholarship

Please note that none of our Universe scholarships include travel or lodging expenses. A scholarship only covers the cost of the conference ticket. Scholarship recipients are responsible for arranging and paying for all their own travel and lodging expenses to, from, and within San Francisco.

Scholarships aren't the only one way we’re making GitHub Universe more accessible. This year, attendees can also expect:

• Gender neutral bathrooms
• Quiet/Meditation room
• Nursing/Baby Care room
• Closed captioning at all talks
• ADA compliant venue spaces
• Fresh water, treats, and an onsite relief area for service or therapy dogs

We hope to see you at Pier 70!

Katrina is an Open Source Advocate at GitHub. As a frequent speaker and proposal reviewer for conferences like GitHub Universe, she's seen hundreds of speaker proposals—and written a few as well.

GitHub Universe is returning to San Francisco this fall, and we're looking for new voices to lead our breakout sessions. Your stories are unique, and having lived them, you're the best person to share your insights with others. If you're new to speaking, don't let that stop you. We're more interested in your experience solving problems than how many talks you've given.

With our submission deadline approaching on July 28, we're inviting you to share your session idea with us. Speakers will receive an honorarium and travel accommodations to make sure budget isn't a limiting factor in your decision to participate.

Submit a speaker proposal

How to make your speaker proposal stand out

Here are some tips to keep in mind as you refine your speaker proposal.

Put your audience first.

Identify who can benefit most from your story. Even if it’s a first-person experience, tell it to those individuals in a way that helps them connect with it. Make them feel like they’re a part of your experience by framing it in terms of similar experiences they might have and what they can do with the information you’re sharing.

Set the stakes.

Establish a problem you’re addressing and why people should care. This is separate from the solution. Your audience will only care about a solution if you set up the problem in a way that helps them understand it and apply it to their experiences.

Work towards a solution.

After your audience understands the problem, help them understand how to approach it and what’s novel about your approach. It’s ok if you don’t have it all figured out, but make your experience actionable for others and describe possible solutions.

For more tips, check out Sarah Mei’s “What Your Conference Proposal is Missing”.

A few of my favorite Universe 2016 sessions

There were a lot of memorable sessions last year, but these ones stood out as particularly impactful.

Anjuan Simmons, "Lending Privilege"

Anjuan takes the often divisive topic of privileged and marginalized groups in technology, and puts each audience member on both sides of the divide. He makes the topic relevant to everyone and leaves nobody feeling like they’re to blame. After reframing and providing a place where we can stand together, he helps us look ahead with practical, actionable advice. It's a thoughtful, insightful talk that the audience continued to discuss throughout the conference.

Keavy McMinn, "GitHub Integrations"

Keavy sets the stage by telling stories about specific ways that GitHub's OAuth applications have caused frustration and failures. Whether you've experienced the problems yourself or not, you'll nod in sympathy and wince in empathy. Then she goes on to share the hero's journey of designing and implementing GitHub Apps, which solve many of the OAuth app frustrations. It's a story full of trials, blind canyons, and yaks—as an audience member, it's easy to think "this could be me", because every technical project has its tribulations. And the outcome of it all is a way for each of us to build something a new way, whether it's to scratch an itch or fix a thorny problem.

Pamela Vickers, "Crossing the Canyon of Cognizance: A Shared Adventure"

Pamela opens with the controversy that arose when Bloomberg asserted that "Everyone should learn to code". Drama is effective in catching audience attention, especially drama that they likely already have strong opinions about. She picks apart the major patterns in the disagreement and concludes that everyone shouldn't necessarily learn to code, but everyone should be able to learn to code if they want to. She frames the problem statement masterfully and connects it to the audience. She then goes on to describe the stages of learning, illustrating the common modes of failure, and what we can do differently to support and encourage learners at each stage.

See more of last year’s sessions

Learn more about speaker topics and tips

Over 600 people made their way to London and attended our second GitHub Satellite last month. From new developers to seasoned software entrepreneurs, attendees came together for two days of discovering information, skills, and people to make their projects even better.

GitHub CEO Chris Wanstrath began the day by sharing some new developments from around the GitHub Universe—including the launch of GitHub Marketplace, a new way to find tools that improve your workflow.

Then team members from Zalando, SAP, HSBC, Bloomberg, and the Raspberry Pi Foundation led sessions in "Build" and "Grow" tracks to share how how they've built tools and communities around the world. If you didn't get to hear from our Satellite speakers, the session videos are now available for you to watch on your own time.

Experience the Satellite Sessions

To see more of GitHub Satellite, watch our wrap-up video:

If you want to expand your orbit beyond Satellite, early bird tickets for GitHub Universe are on sale now. GitHub's three-day flagship conference is returning to San Francisco in October with more hands-on workshops and an after-party.

Learn more about GitHub Universe

先週の始め、東京で GitHub Constellation イベントが初めて開催されました。ソフトウェアに対して熱い思いを抱く 200 人の方が参加し、GitHub のエンジニア、お客様、またパートナー様による話を聞きました。参加できなかった方々に向けて、イベントのハイライトをお伝えします！

基調講演

最初に、日本のカントリーマネージャーを務める藤田純と共に GitHub の最高業務責任者である Julio Avalos がステージに上がり基調講演を行いました。Julio は、日本のマーケットに対する GitHub のコミットメントに関して繰り返し言及し、日本では毎日 18 万人以上が GitHub を利用していることを示しました。また最近の製品ローンチに関する最新情報を提供し、ソフトウェア開発ツールをすべての人が利用できるようにする、という GitHub の目標について述べました。その後、長谷部良輔氏がステージに登場し、LINE で GitHub Enterprise を利用している経験について語りました。

セッションのハイライト

Constellation の出席者は、2 つのトラックでビジネスリーダーやテクニカルリーダーから話を聞きました。テクニカルセッションでは、Ruby のコミッターでエンタープライズ向けにクラウドサービスを提供する企業 Treasure Data のソフトウェア開発者である中村浩士氏（@nahi）による、エンタープライズソフトウェア開発での OSS の捉え方に関する包括的なディスカッションも行われました。Attractor Inc. の最高技術責任者、吉羽龍太郎氏は「ビジネスでの DevOps」という話の中で、ビジネスパーソンが DevOps の取り組みにどのように関わるかについて考察しました。話の中で、絶えず変化し続ける環境に対応してビジネスの効率を高めるための手段としてDevOpsが取り上げられました。話の最後で、吉羽氏は、なぜ DevOps がソフトウェア開発者に限らずビジネスパーソンとも関係するのかを説明しました。
また、藤田純が、Yahoo! Japan、サイバーエージェント、富士通研究所のお客様をステージに招き、各企業が実施しているソフトウェア開発へのアプローチに関してディスカッションを行いました。ディスカッションの中心となったのは、ソフトウェア開発のプラクティスおよびプロセスのさらなる向上のために、組織が取り組む必要のある文化的な変化についてでした。

GitHub meetup

メインイベントの前に、GitHub コミュニティの皆様を招いて、Super Deluxe で交流イベントを開催しました。XTREME DESIGN、KDDI、Slack の各社からの講演者による啓発的な話が行われ、その後ビデオアーティストの高橋啓治郎氏 が Unity と GitHub を使ったオープンソースビジュアルアートのパフォーマンスをステージで繰り広げました。

謝辞

最後に、GitHub の日本のコミュニティ、およびスポンサーのクラスメソッド様、Constellation をご支援いただき感謝申し上げます。次回の開催を楽しみにしております。今年米国を訪れるご予定がありましたら、GitHub Universe でぜひお会いしましょう。

Mission Report: Constellation Tokyo 2017

Last week, we hosted our first ever GitHub Constellation event in Tokyo. 200 software enthusiasts joined us to hear talks from GitHub engineers, customers and partners. In case you missed it, here are some highlights!

Keynote

We started with a keynote by GitHub's Chief Business Officer, Julio Avalos, who was joined onstage by Japan Country Manager Jun Fujita. Julio reiterated GitHub's commitment to the Japanese market, and revealed that there are over 180k people using GitHub daily in Japan. He also shared updates on recent product launches, and stated GitHub's goal of making software development tools accessible to everyone. Later, Ryosuke Hasebe took the stage to share his experience using GitHub Enterprise at LINE.

Session highlights

Constellation attendees heard talks from business and technical leaders in two tracks. The technical sessions included a comprehensive discussion of how to think about OSS in enterprise software development by Hiroshi Nakamura (@nahi), Ruby committer and software developer at enterprise cloud services company Treasure Data. In his "DevOps for business" talk, Ryutaro Yoshiba, CTO of Attractor Inc., discussed how business people can get involved in DevOps efforts. His talk focused on DevOps as an effort to increase the efficiency of businesses to adapt to ever-changing environments.

Jun Fujita also lead a discussion on stage with customers from Yahoo! Japan, CyberAgent and Fujitsu Labs to explore how they each approach software development. Much focus was on the cultural changes that organizations need to undertake in order to advance software dev practices and processes.

GitHub meetup

Before the main event, we opened our doors to the GitHub community by hosting a meetup at Super Deluxe, where speakers from XTREME DESIGN, KDDI, and Slack gave lightning talks before video artist Keijiro Takahashi took the stage to show off some of the open source visual art he makes using Unity and GitHub.

Thank you

Finally, thank you to our Japanese community, and to our sponsor, ClassMethod, for supporting Constellation—we'll be back! If you plan to be in the US later this year, we'd love to see you again at GitHub Universe.

先週ロンドンで開催されたGitHub Satelliteにご参加いただいたすべての方に感謝申し上げます。そして今回、私たちはさらに多くのデベロッパーやビジネスリーダーの皆様に会いに、6月6日に東京でConstellation Tokyoを開催いたします！Tabloidでのセッションおよびパネルディスカッションの1-Dayチケットをお持ちの方は、こちらから当日のスケジュールをご確認いただけます。

セッション例

• GitHubの CBO (Chief Business Officer) Julio Avalos によるオープニングキーノート
• Grow Session Trackにて、一般社団法人コード・フォー・ジャパンの関治之氏による 「シビックテック - 伽藍とバザールとオープンガバメント」
• Grow Session Trackにて、株式会社富士通研究所の佐川千世己氏による 「デジタルイノベーションを支える富士通研究所の役割」
• Build Session Trackにて、GitHubの鈴木順子氏による 「The Path to GitHub Enterprise Success」
• Women Who Code Tokyoの佐藤紘美氏によるクロージングキーノートの後は、カクテルアワーをお楽しみいただけます

スケジュールの詳細はこちらからご確認ください

Constellation Meetup にぜひご参加ください

Costellation Tokyoのチケットは販売初日に完売しましたが、チケットをお持ちでない場合でも、都内で開催されるコミュニティの交流イベントConstellation Meetupにご参加いただけます。6月5日の夜には、Super Deluxe でビデオアーティストの高橋啓治郎氏によるパフォーマンスや、 XTREME DESIGN、KDDI などを代表するデベロッパーによる一連のライトニングトークが予定されています。飲み物や軽食を楽しみながら、オープンソースのデベロッパーや GitHub チームとの交流をお楽しみください。Constellation Tokyo のチケットをお持ちの場合は、Constellation Meetup に立ち寄られると、カンファレンスバッジを早めに受け取ることができ当日の混雑を避けることができます。

Constellation Meetupに登録する

Thanks to everyone who joined us in London for Satellite last week. Now, we’re heading to Tokyo to meet more developers and business leaders at Constellation on June 6. If you have a ticket for the full day of sessions and panel discussions at Tabloid, here's a peek at what your day will look like.

Sample schedule

• Start the day with a keynote from GitHub's Chief Business Officer, Julio Avalos
• Discuss "Civic tech: the cathedral, the bazaar, and open government" with Code for Japan's Hal Seki in our Grow Session Track
• Hear from Fujitsu Laboratories' Chiseki Sagawa on "Digital innovation support" in our Grow Session Track
• Explore "The path to GitHub Enterprise success" with Junko Suzuki of GitHub in our Build Session Track
• Close the day with a keynote from Himi Sato of Women Who Code Tokyo and a cocktail hour

See the full schedule

You're invited to the Constellation Meetup

Constellation tickets sold out on the first day tickets were on sale, but you can still join us for a community meetup in Tokyo if you didn't get one. We'll be at Super Deluxe on the evening of June 5 for a performance by video artist Keijiro Takahashi and a round of lightning talks from developers representing XTREME DESIGN, KDDI, and more. Come meet open source developers and the GitHub Team over snacks and drinks. If you're registered for Constellation, you can also pick up your conference badge early and beat the crowds if you stop by the Constellation Meetup.

Register for the Constellation Meetup

Earlier this week, we kicked off the second GitHub Satellite in London. In case you missed it, here are some highlights, along with a summary of platform updates we shared.

We started day one at Printworks with a keynote by GitHub CEO Chris Wanstrath and Platform Engineering Manager Kyle Daigle. They shared a few platform updates, including the launch of GitHub Marketplace, a new way to discover and buy apps that customize your workflow.

On day two, we worked with chatbots, Electron, and Arduinos in hands-on workshops, and we ended the day with cocktails and refreshments at White Rabbit, an airy Shoreditch workspace.

Platform updates

We launched a couple tools that make it easier to build on your process and integrate with GitHub in addition to GitHub Marketplace. Check out the production-ready version of our GraphQL API and GitHub Apps, fresh out of pre-release. For more details, see the platform update blog post.

Sponsors

GitHub Satellite would not have been possible without the support of our sponsors who provided coffee, waffles, floral installations, and mustachioed mascots made of LEGOS.

Thank you

Finally, thank you to our community for launching the second Satellite into orbit—you made this one the best yet. We'd love to see you again at CodeConf and ElectronConf in July, and at GitHub Universe in October!

GitHub Universe, our flagship product and community conference, is just a few months away on October 10-12 at Pier 70 in San Francisco. Secure your spot with an early bird ticket or submit a speaker proposal if you'd like to lead a session.

Be at the center of Universe

Pick up an early bird ticket

Early bird tickets are available now for $399 and include two GitHub keynotes, four featured talks, 40 breakout sessions, and after party admission. You can also extend your Universe experience with a full day of hands-on workshops hosted by GitHub's Training Team. Early bird pricing will be available until August 1, but don't wait—they will sell out.

Get early bird tickets

Submit a speaker proposal

We're also calling for speakers to share ideas about tools, people, and businesses behind software during the GitHub Universe breakout sessions. There are 40 sessions and four session tracks this year following these themes:

• Code: It's the nuts and bolts of software. Which programming languages and frameworks are enabling you to build the next release or solve a tough technical challenge? What development environment and tools are you using to get your ideas into code? How is data and machine learning influencing what you're building?

• Architecture: Every technical decision comes with trade-offs. How do you plan for the future while tackling the practical technical problems you're currently facing? Explore the how distributed systems impact your application architecture, how an API-first approach informs what features you're building, and how to balance performance, flexibility, and complexity with service-based applications.

• Operations: Writing software is only half the battle. Shipping new code into production takes coordination between teams and an integrated set of tools. Share your experience maintaining a scalable infrastructure, connecting continuous integration and deployment systems, and extending your development workflow to include performance, monitoring, and resiliency.

• People: Behind every line of code is a person writing it. How do we, both as individuals and teams, impact what software we build? Discuss the value of collaboration, the practice of managing engineers, the place of mental health and wellness, and the challenges of building community.

If you have a story you'd like to share with the biggest developer community in the world, we'd love to hear from you. All levels of experience—in speaking and software—are welcome.

Submit a proposal

Experience last year's Universe

Satellite speakers and attendees will be on their way to London next week for our biggest European conference to date. Learn more about the work and inspiration of two U.K.-based Satellite speakers, a GitHub Campus Expert and a Met Office Informatics Lab Lead Engineer.

If you want to meet them in person, there's still time to get your Satellite ticket.

Meet Amy Dickens

GitHub Campus Expert - Computer Science PhD at The University of Nottingham

How'd you get started in development?

I started out in recording technology and sound engineering as my bachelor's degree. We did some basic audio programming using MaxMSP and IDE for audio programming, and from there, my love of building things grew. I picked up processing in my final year and then some front end web development skills. After that, I joined the University of Nottingham to do a PhD in Computer Science.

What's the most interesting thing you're working on?

I'm currently researching computer vision and human computer interaction for my PhD on "Gesture Controlled Sound for Users with Complex Disabilities".

Do you have any side projects you want to share?

Yes yes yes. I am hugely enthusiastic about building communities that help women to get into tech and that promote gender equality in the industry. I recently built an interactive map at a hackathon that I'd like to expand to showcase where women are in tech around the world! It's open source and I'm totally up for suggestions as to what to do with it next. Take a look.

What are the biggest challenges you're dealing with?

Sensors and making things see. I’m currently working on Leap Motion Sensors, but they struggle to detect hands of people with certain conditions that cause closed hand syndrome. Plus, getting to grips with convolution neural networks in machine learning. I've just spent a few days on an AI and Machine Learning track at the Codemotion conference in Amsterdam, and it's got me hyped to investigate it more and how it could help my research.

Which emoji best represents you?

Well, that's a no brainer—totally 🦄

Meet Jacob Tomlinson

Lead Engineer - Met Office Informatics Lab

How'd you get started in development?

Since the first time I clicked “view source” on a web page, I’ve been fascinated with how code and markup can be converted into complex functionality. My interest grew from there and lead me down the path to server side languages and databases. It was then I discovered the power of Linux and fell in love with system engineering and architecture.

What's the most interesting thing you're working on?

I'm currently working on a project called Jade which involves building scalable interactive data processing systems to empower environmental scientists.

What are the best parts of what you do?

One of the best parts of my job is getting to collaborate with and learn from incredible people in the technology field. I’m fortunate enough to work alongside top engineers from NASA, Amazon, Microsoft, and more.

What does a normal day look like for you?

An average day involves sitting around a large table with my team writing code and configuring servers. We often entertain visitors and collaborators and play a key role in communicating what the Met Office is working on. I always try to have a lunchtime walk in the surrounding countryside to clear my head.

How do you manage your time?

I keep an A6 bullet journal. I find it really important to have a physical task list as apps are far too easy to minimize and forget about.

Do you have any side projects?

In my spare time I have been working on a Python chatbot framework called opsdroid. I use it alongside the awesome Home Assistant project to talk to my smart home, and we use it to power our ChatOps workflow within our team. It’s designed to be easy to configure with everything contained in one yaml file and easy to extend with simple Python decorator syntax.

What are the biggest challenges you're dealing with?

As with many people, we just have far too much data to process in the ways we’re used to. Coming up with scalable, flexible, parallelized solutions for data processing is both the biggest challenge and most interesting thing I’m working on at the moment.

Which emoji best represents you?

Tough question. My most used emoji is 🤓, so I’ll have to go with that one.

See who else is speaking at Satellite

We're heading to Seattle July 11-13 for CodeConf and ElectronConf, two back-to-back open source conferences—each with its own focus. Join us for three days of learning and building with fellow open source developers. Get your tickets now to take advantage of early bird pricing, and save even more when you purchase tickets to both events.

CodeConf July 11-12

This year, we’re highlighting open source technologies, and diving deep into browser and beyond-browser tools. We'll explore the latest in browser engines, the languages being used, and how they're breaking out of web and into native mobile and desktop software development. With over 30 sessions in two days, you're sure to walk away with enough know-how and inspiration to build the next generation of open source projects.

We're offering early bird pricing on general admission tickets for a limited time and calling for speakers who want to share open source lessons, projects, or skills. Whether it's your first talk or your fiftieth, we'd love to hear from you.

Get early bird CodeConf tickets

Be a CodeConf speaker

ElectronConf July 12-13

After CodeConf, we're hosting ElectronConf, a brand new single track conference with a pre-conference workshop day. The event is dedicated to Electron, the best way to build cross-platform desktop experiences, and brings the entire Electron community together to learn best practices, see how other developers are using Electron, and find out what's next.

Share your experience with Electron as a speaker in one of the eight breakout sessions, lightning talks, or workshops.

Get early bird ElectronConf tickets

Be an ElectronConf speaker

6月6日(火)、日本で初となるGitHubのカンファレンス”Constellation Tokyo”を開催します！ Tabloidで開催するセッションと、GitHubのチーム・パートナー様・お客様・コミュニティの方々とのネットワーキングに皆さんをお招きします。カンファレンスでは、GitHubを全社に展開した例などを含むビジネスケーススタディーを聞くことができます。また、どうすれば社内のデベロッパーエクスペリエンスを向上させることができるかのヒントを得ることもできるでしょう。GitHubの今後の方向性に関する最新情報も、当社チームのメンバーから直接お聞きください。

Constellationに先立って6月5日(月)には、SuperDeluxeでコミュニティミートアップを開催します。オープンソースやコミュニティマネジメントに関するトークを聞き、ドリンクやスナックを楽しみながらGitHubber達とお話ください。

今すぐチケットを入手するか、イベントの最新情報をメールで受け取りましょう！

On June 6, GitHub is hosting Constellation Tokyo, our first-ever conference in Japan! We'd like to invite you to a day of sessions and networking with the GitHub team and your local GitHub community.

At Constellation, you'll learn how Japanese teams are integrating GitHub across their companies to create a better developer experience. Then meet developers who contribute to open source and their communities. You'll also get the latest updates on where GitHub is headed, directly from our team.

Before the conference, we’re hosting a community meetup at SuperDeluxe on June 5. Check out talks on open source and community management and hang out with GitHubbers over drinks and snacks.

We hope you'll leave Constellation with new friends and fresh ideas on how to work better with your team—and with the open source community.

Go to githubuniverse.com/constellation to get your tickets or sign up for updates!

With Satellite just a couple weeks away, we’re sharing a deal to help you experience our two biggest conferences for less. For a limited time, get 50% off Satellite and Universe tickets when you buy them together.

At Satellite, you’ll hear the latest from GitHub and software community leaders with two full days of talks, workshops, and special events in London on May 22-23. Then, reconnect with them four months later at Universe, our flagship conference in San Francisco on October 10-12, to build on the momentum.

Get the complete experience of GitHub events from products to partners to the community around them. But don’t wait! This deal is only available until May 22.

Get the Satellite and Universe ticket bundle

Greetings, Austin! If you're going to OSCON this week, we'd love to meet you. We'll be at the GitHub booth in the Expo Hall on Wednesday from 10am-7pm and Thursday from 10am-4:30pm. At our booth, you'll find Open Source Alley, where open source maintainers will present and demo their projects. Throughout the week, you'll also be able to hear talks from GitHub engineers and product leaders. Check out the schedules below to learn more.

Open Source Alley

Open Source Alley is a space in the middle of the OSCON Expo Hall alongside the GitHub booth dedicated to open source projects from across the community.

Whether you're learning to code or scaling your infrastructure, using JavaScript or in love with Go–you're sure to find a project that is right up your alley. Stop by to chat with maintainers and contributors, find out more about the projects, and learn how to get involved with one of these great projects:

• Exercism is a community helping code newbies and experienced programmers level up their programming skills. With practice problems in over 30 different languages, you can try solving programming exercises and get feedback on your solutions from the community. See a demo on Wednesday, May 10, at 10:25am and 2:30pm.

• Operation Code empowers the military community to learn software development, enter the tech industry, and code the future. They work with more than 1,000 members through their online community, and welcome past and present Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, and Coast Guard service members, veterans, and military spouses to apply to their programs. See a demo on Wednesday, May 10, at 10:45am and 3:25pm.

• Salt is a new approach to automating the management and configuration of any infrastructure or application at scale. Salt can be used for data-driven orchestration, remote execution for any infrastructure, configuration management for any app stack, and more. See a demo on Wednesday, May 10, at 11:40pm and 3:45pm.

• Hospital Run provides the most modern hospital information system possible to the least resourced environments through open source. Its intuitive interface provides a great user experience, and it's designed to allow records to be carried to remote clinics. See a demo on Wednesday, May 10, at 12:50pm and 5:55pm.

• Botkit is a toolkit for making bot applications built to ease the process of designing and running useful, creative bots that live inside messaging platforms. Bots are applications that can send and receive messages, and in many cases, appear alongside their human counterparts as users. See a demo on Wednesday, May 10, at 1:30pm and 6:20pm.

• Homebrew is the missing package manager for macOS. If there's a tool you need on your Mac, then you can almost certainly install it from Homebrew. See a demo on Thursday, May 11, at 10:20am and 2:30pm.

• Keep a Changelog encourages open source projects to maintain a curated, chronologically ordered list of notable changes for each version of a project in a change log. See a demo on Thursday, May 11, at 10:40am.

• Hugo is a fast and modern static website engine, making website creation simple again. Hugo works flexibly with many formats and is ideal for blogs, docs, portfolios, and much more. See a demo on Thursday, May 11, at 3:15pm.

• Beeware is a collection of projects that can be used to help develop, debug, and launch Python software. Each tool follows the Unix philosophy of doing one thing well. Each tool can be used in isolation or they can be chained together to provide a rich set of programming tools. See a demo on Thursday, May 11, at 11:40am.

• Appium is an open source test automation framework for use with native, hybrid and mobile web apps. It drives iOS, Android, and Windows apps using the WebDriver protocol. See a demo on Thursday, May 11, at 3:30pm.

• Open Collective is on a mission to bring sustainable funding to open source. They offer transparent finances to over 200 open communities and have brought in over $200,000. See a demo on Thursday, May 11, at 12:40pm.

• Mimic is a seamless mocking tool that runs inside your browser. It allows you to set a mock programmatically and to test out different scenarios of your application, and share your mocks across your team using your version control system. See a demo on Thursday, May 11, at 1:00pm and 3:45pm.

• Zulip is an open source group chat application optimized for software development teams. It has all the features you'd expect in a modern chat application, and you can run it on your own servers and integrate it with your favorite tools. See a demo on Thursday, May 11, at 1:20pm and 4:00pm.

Thanks to StickerMule for donating stickers to many of these projects so they can give them out to visitors at Open Source Alley.

GitHub talks

You'll also be able to find GitHubbers at OSCON this week, discussing everything from APIs to open source best practices. Stop by their talks and introduce yourself! They'd be happy to chat with you.

• @gamefiend and @byronschaller are presenting Hello, cloud: Why and how to start managing your infrastructure with Terraform on Tuesday at 9:00am in Meeting Room 18 A/B
• @davidcelis and @gjtorikian will talk about migration From REST to GraphQL: Why a query language is perfect for writing APIs on Wednesday at 11:00am in Ballroom F
• @Fermentedbeats will discuss The cultural shift: Success with microservices in Wednesday at 11:50am in Ballroom G
• @MikeMcQuaid will let you know Why people don’t contribute to your open source project on Wednesday at 1:45pm in Meeting Room 14
• @benbalter is giving an empirical and analytical look at what grows strong communities across GitHub.com on Thursday at 1:45pm in Meeting Room 10 A/B

With 14 sessions and two keynotes, there’s plenty to do on the first day of Satellite. But make sure to save some energy for socializing, workshops, and after parties while you’re there. Here’s a rundown of events outside of the conference talks you can experience with your Satellite ticket.

Ask GitHub

Don’t miss your chance to chat with a GitHub expert. Whether you have questions about GitHub Enterprise or Electron, GitHub team members will be at Satellite and ready to help you do your best work.

GitHub Professional Services is offering 30-minute complimentary, private consultations. Stop by Ask GitHub while you’re at Satellite to chat with them or sign up on the Satellite site under Ask GitHub.

Build your community

Connect with developers and teams who share your passions.

Wander through art installations, lounges, and food stations to meet developers working on projects like yours, and strike up a conversation with service providers who can improve your GitHub workflow.

This year, you can look forward to interactive art like an ethereal flower garden from Heroku and recharge lounges hosted by AWS and Sentry.

Celebrate with us

After the conference, walk a few blocks over to the after party at Hawker House, one of London’s biggest street markets. Reconnect with developers you met at the conference, meet session presenters, and challenge them all to a game of foosball when you’re done sampling the food stands.

Hone your skills

The second day of Satellite kicks off on May 23 with workshops—practical sessions, where you’ll build something new with experts leading the way. You’ll have your choice of workshops for €99 like “GitHub and the Internet of Things: Automate IoT Hardware”, “Electron: Start to Finish”, “Creating an InnerSource Culture”, and “Build a ChatBot”.

Space is limited and workshops are almost sold out, so make sure to register for workshops when you get your ticket.

See the full Satellite schedule

Developers, community builders, and technical leaders from around the world are gearing up to share their experiences in fourteen sessions at Satellite on May 22. Here’s a closer look at a few of the topics and presenters.

Get your Satellite ticket before they sell out to be a part of the sessions.

Get excited for Satellite

“How to avoid creating a GitHub junkyard” with Lauri Apple of Zalando

When Lauri isn’t project managing Zalando's core search engineering team, she’s spearheading the team’s InnerSource initiative. She’ll be applying her background as a former journalist and media strategist to a session about building a cohesive narrative on GitHub.

“In this talk, I'll share insights gained from ‘editing’ Zalando's GitHub repository so we can tell a better story. From 400+ projects of widely differing quality, reliability, and maintenance levels, we've winnowed our offerings to make our highest-quality work more discoverable. I'll share how we used GitHub and other tools to create guidelines, categories, and processes that bring sanity to our storytelling. If your organization is facing similar GitHub-bloat challenges, or looking for ways to manage your repos more effectively, you’ll find some help here.”

“The power of the open source community” with Kat Fukui & Mike McQuaid of GitHub

Kat is a California-based Product Designer on GitHub’s Community and Safety team building tools that empower communities. Mike is a Scotland-based Senior Software Engineer and a lead maintainer of Homebrew on the side. They’ll be teaming up to share what they’ve learned about tapping into the power of the open source community to build the most successful people-powered projects.

“In this session, we’ll talk about what makes an open source project successful, and what workflow tools we’ve been building to help communities become happier places. Whether you’re a maintainer, existing open source contributor or looking to make your first ever contribution, this session will help you make the most out of the open source community on GitHub.”

“Openness at King: our journey towards collaboration with GitHub Enterprise” with Raul Pareja and Victor Martinez

Raul and Victor are build and configuration engineers at King, based in Barcelona and the UK respectively. They bring decades of experience in building integration and delivery environments to their session about collaboration among developer teams on GitHub.

“We’re excited to discuss how we’ve used GitHub Enterprise as a sharing and collaborative tool in our current workflow. We needed to boost collaboration between departments and game studios that fit the openness of our company, and while there were challenges along the way, this session will show you how we achieved that outcome.”

“Building a tech community within an African society” with Konrad Djimeli, GitHub Campus Expert

Konrad Djimeli is a student at the University of Buea, Cameroon, an open source developer, and a GitHub Campus Expert. He’ll share his experience with building software in African communities in his session.

“I’m helping build ‘the Silicon Mountain community’ known to be Cameroon's largest growing tech community. It’s still very new and has gone through some refinement to get to where it is now. This talk provides some insight on how technology is being used to solve problems we are facing in this part of the world, and how we are overcoming challenges against all odds.”

“Demystifying the monolith” with Kir Shatrov of Shopify

Kir is a Developer Infrastructure Engineer at Shopify where he works on the core Rails platform. He shares his journey working on the oldest actively developed Rails monolith, Shopify, in his session.

“The Shopify codebase starts in 2005, contains a thousand models and 400 controllers, and remembers the very first Rails versions. Every day hundreds of developers are working on it and pushing new code into a single GitHub repo. How do you scale, not in the number of requests served per minute, but from the perspective of developer experience? How can you automate code reviews and prevent developers from shooting themselves in the foot? We’ve built tools to make developers happy working with monolith, and I’ll share our learnings at Satellite.”

Don’t miss this orbit

These are just a handful of the sessions you’ll be able to participate in at GitHub Satellite. Find more info about sessions in the Satellite schedule, and don’t forget to grab a ticket!

There's still time to register for GitHub Satellite, and now you can buy a ticket knowing more about what's in store.

See the full schedule

Here's a peek at what you'll experience in London on May 22-23.

Hear from the GitHub team

You'll start day one with GitHub's co-founder and CEO, Chris Wanstrath. The keynote will share the latest GitHub updates, and you'll hear more from our team in later sessions. GitHub trainers, engineers, and product designers will cover everything from Git tips to running a healthy open source project.

Learn from the GitHub community

The keynote will also kick off breakout sessions hosted by leaders from our community. They'll share case studies on what they're building on GitHub and the tools they're using to improve the way their teams work together. Learn how:

• Panna Pavangadkar of Bloomberg is changing how her team builds software
• Kir Shatrov and the Shopify team improved the experience of hundreds of developers shipping code every day
• Jacob Tomlinson and the team behind the largest supercomputer in Europe, the Met Office, are using open source tools to manage and analyze the rapidly growing warehouse of weather and climate data

Build something new in the workshops

If you're joining us for day two of Satellite, you'll experience hands-on workshops that bring you closer to the code and experts. In this new workshop format, you'll learn how to build a chatbot, create Electron apps from start to finish, and bring open source principles to your team.

See workshop schedule

Be inspired in London

Outside of the sessions, you'll have plenty of opportunities to connect with other attendees in our conference venue, Printworks—a 16 acre former printing factory. Chat while taking a break in one of the lounges or meet up for all-day coffee and snacks. You'll be immersed in the most exciting software community in the world, and you won't want to miss what we have planned outside the conference doors.

After party at Hawker House. After the conference, make your way over to the after party a few blocks away at Hawker House in the Rotherhithe neighborhood. You’ll get to meet presenters, visit food stalls, and play billiards and foosball in one of London’s biggest street markets.

Workshops at The White Rabbit. The second day of Satellite kicks off in a striking studio space—a 7,000 square foot renovated Victorian archway in Shoreditch. From chatbots to IoT hardware, you’ll have your choice of things to build alongside experts leading the way.

Visit the Satellite page to see the full schedule and get your ticket—but don’t wait! This conference will sell out.