talks.md

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Talks	Slides and recordings from some of the talks I've given over the years.	page	/talks/

Slides (and recordings) from some of the talks I've given over the years. Have a suggestion? I'd love to hear it.

Collaboration and open source

• Closed source (just) a few things

• Best practices for open source in government

• Open source licensing by the numbers

• Open source demystified: from command line to community engagement (source)

• Open collaboration: why you should give open source a second look

Software development and workflows

• How to work like an open source project, regardless of what you do

• How GitHub works like an open source project

• Three simple rules for building APIs

• Code, Test, Deploy: How to 🚢 software like a startup

• Rapid development, testing, and deployment the open source way

Open government

• What government can learn from open source (slides)

• Software developer as civic service

• The revolution will be forked: how open collaboration is reimagining the way government works (source)

• Make Government better together: Moving from open government to collaborative government (source)

Law and policy

• Open source software licensing: empowering others to use your code (source)

• Collaborative policy making: how technology is making it easier to work together than alone (source)

• Project open data: a case study in collaborative governance (video)

Mapping and GeoJSON

• Open source, open standards, and 50 lines of code: a look behind GitHub's GeoJSON rendering and diffing, source)

• Make maps better together: Collaborative mapping the Open Source Way (video)

Miscellaneous

• A benbalter-centric history of GitHub Pages and Autoblog

• The next cultural commons: how the internet has been quietly assembling the next cultural cannon (source)