A presentation at GitHub Nova by Debbie O'Brien
Building a Community with GitHub Discussions debs-obrien / Building a Community with GitHub Discussions Nova 2021
Debbie O’Brien Head Developer Advocate at Bit, GitHub Star, Microsoft MVP, Google Developer Expert, Media Developer Exper & 4th Degree Black Belt in Taekwondo debs-obrien / Building a Community with GitHub Discussions t
Nova 2021
Bit Solution for Component Driven Development, Micro Frontends, Component Libraries, Design Systems….. github.com/teambit debs-obrien / Building a Community with GitHub Discussions Nova 2021
Benefits Slack • • • • debs-obrien / Building a Community with GitHub Discussions Nova 2021 Easy to see new messages We use it internally Easy to tag a team member Easy to use on mobile
Problems Slack • • • • • debs-obrien / Building a Community with GitHub Discussions Nova 2021 Codeblocks are terrible No integration to submit issue Messages get easily forgotten Not easy to find previous answers Not visible outside slack
Biggest Problem Developers were spending lots of time answering a question again and again debs-obrien / Building a Community with GitHub Discussions Nova 2021
Solution? Write better software!!! debs-obrien / Building a Community with GitHub Discussions Nova 2021
Solution? Write better docs!!! debs-obrien / Building a Community with GitHub Discussions Nova 2021
Docs Rewrite • Will be released soon… ish debs-obrien / Building a Community with GitHub Discussions Nova 2021
Solution? Write a blog post!!! debs-obrien / Building a Community with GitHub Discussions Nova 2021
Where is the blog post? • debbie.codes? • dev.to? • Medium? debs-obrien / Building a Community with GitHub Discussions Nova 2021
Solution? GitHub Discussions debs-obrien / Building a Community with GitHub Discussions Nova 2021
GitHub Discussions • Easy to find • Searchable • Easy to share debs-obrien / Building a Community with GitHub Discussions Nova 2021
GitHub Discussions • Easy to find • Searchable • Easy to share debs-obrien / Building a Community with GitHub Discussions Nova 2021
Let’s start building our community debs-obrien / Building a Community with GitHub Discussions Nova 2021
And thanks to GitHub Discussions, we all lived happily ever after debs-obrien / Building a Community with GitHub Discussions Nova 2021
Sorry, wrong talk, this doesn’t have a fairytale ending :( debs-obrien / Building a Community with GitHub Discussions Nova 2021
Problems GitHub Discussions • • • • debs-obrien / Building a Community with GitHub Discussions Nova 2021 Repo level Monitoring Permissions Measuring
Possible Solutions GitHub Discussions • • • • debs-obrien / Building a Community with GitHub Discussions Nova 2021 Discussions at org level Show who last answered Separate Permissions Show how many views
We are still learning and building our community debs-obrien / Building a Community with GitHub Discussions Nova 2021
We believe GitHub Discussions can help us debs-obrien / Building a Community with GitHub Discussions Nova 2021
New updates to GitHub Discussions coming soon….. debs-obrien / Building a Community with GitHub Discussions Nova 2021
Maybe it is a fairytale ending after all debs-obrien / Building a Community with GitHub Discussions Nova 2021
Thanks GitHub :) debs-obrien / Building a Community with GitHub Discussions Nova 2021
And thanks for having me as a GitHub Star debs-obrien / Building a Community with GitHub Discussions Nova 2021
How at Bit.dev we are trying to build a community with GitHub discussions and the problems we are trying to solve and how Discussions may helps us solve it.
