GitHub Intro

Ever wondered what this thing called GitHub is and why webmappers are all about it? Scratched your head and thought ‘how the fork do I make a repo’? Wanna branch out and commit to a new issue? Are you thinking those last sentences sound like gibberish? You won’t after you come to the next Maptime meetup!

GitHub is a platform for hosting and collaborating on projects. You don’t have to worry about losing data on your hard drive or managing a project across multiple computers — you can sync from anywhere. Most importantly, GitHub is a collaborative and asynchronous workflow for building software, websites and maps better, together.

Our next meetup is on Tuesday February 17th. Maptimer Amr Eldib is teaching us what we need to know about GitHub and how we can use it in our mapmaking (Thanks Amr)!

Before you arrive, make a GitHub account (link at the bottom) and install it on your machine (google "download github for your OS"), so that you’re ready to go! As always, beginners are very welcome.

Thanks to the BC Libraries Coop for generously hosting us again.

One of us will be down in the lobby to swipe you in until 6.15, but if you arrive after that, tweet us @maptimeYVR, or send us an email maptimeYVR@gmail.com and we will come down to let you in.

https://help.github.com/articles/signing-up-for-a-new-github-account/