Yesterday I attended GitHub Satellite 2017 in London

https://github.com/blog/2313-join-us-for-github-satellite-2017-may-22-23-in-london-uk

The event was well attended and there was a good buzz around the conference. GitHub Marketplace was launched at the conference and some of the initial vendors in the Marketplace demonstrated how their applications can be used in the lifecycle of coding. You could watch demos and chat to the companies at their vendor stalls to gain further information.

Below are my notes from the conference and Key Note opening speeches

Opening

The opening lead by Chris Wanstrath (Co-Founder & CEO, GitHub) and Kyle Daigle (Senior Engineering Manager, GitHub)

• GitHub has 21 Million Developers
• 59 Million Projects using the platform.
• Expanding into gaming with Githib for Unity
• Extentions for Visual Studio

ATOM

• Help guide the approach with ATOM
• 2.1 million active users of ATOM

Electron

• GitHub desktop GUI new version based on electron. Open Source to allow it to be developed by community.
• Electron platform for building desktop apps. Runs cross platforms.
• Companies using electron to build internal apps.
• Seeing big fortune 500 companies using electron for web, mobile and desktop apps.

GitHub as a platorm

• Now 9 years old.
• Today more API traffic than UI traffic
• 5+ million users use integration
• OAuth growing doubling each year
• API ‘s have not been developed and remained static….. 9 years old.

World moving to a new world of API’s. Moving on from SOAP to REST to what’s next.What is the future of API’s:

GraphQL

• Build queries on data you need.
  • Powering new features of GitHub
  • Suggested reviewers
  • Projects
  • Topics
• 125 million GraphSQL internal queries a day.
• GraphQL is open source.

GitHub Apps

• Fine grain permissions
• Choose how you want to give access to repositories
• Using bots in Integrations

GitHub Marketplace (Launching today)

• Find tools that meet your workflows best.
• Pricing plans in marketplace
• Marketplace has option to join and apply to be part of Marketplace.

Build and Grow Sessions

There were a number of sessions held in either the Build or Grow track which attendees could join.

I went to sessions in both tracks including the session on Building Interconnected Workflows which featured companies in the newly launched Market Place. Heard from these companies on how their products could be used in conjunction for a full code project lifecycle, which was interesting and good to hear.

Vitor Monteiro, GitHub
Andrew Homeyer, Waffle.io
Danielle Tomlinson, CircleCI
Jaime Jorge, Codacy
Cory Virok, Rollbar

There was a good session on Women in IT from Amy Dickens from the University of Nottingham which also covered topics of diversity and how workplaces and attitudes can change to make a difference.

Closing Session

The closing session was run by Marc Scott from the Raspberry PI Foundation who gave an overview of the Foundation, what it does and how the community can help review projects and sumbit projects for others to practice, learn from and enjoy. Also helping by joining local coding groups to pass on knowledge.

Sessions were streamed and Im hoping that replays are availble to catch up with the sessions I couldnt get to.

Unfortunately I could not get to todays workshop sessions but again hoping for streams of these following the event.