Pacific Northwest Software Symposium - No Fluff Just Stuff

Pacific Northwest Software Symposium

September 23 - 25, 2011

Git Workshop

Saturday - Sep 24 3:15 PM PDT - Lake Chelan

Git is a version control system you may have been hearing a bit about lately. But simply hearing more about it may not be enough to convince you of its value. Getting hands on experience is what really counts. In this workshop, you'll bring your Windows, Mac or Linux laptop and walk through downloading, installing, and using Git in a collaborative fashion.

The workshop style of this class will allow you to observe and discover the value of this new version control tool first hand. You'll be cloning, creating, commiting, and pushing repositories by the conclusion of this session.

Matthew McCullough

Matthew McCullough

Training Innovator, GitHub

Workshop Requirements

This session is a workshop. Please come prepared.

  • Please bring a Windows, Mac or Linux laptop
  • Please have administrative privileges on the laptop for installing software
  • Please install Git 1.7.10 or higher and ensure git is on your PATH (in the environment variable list of paths)
  • Please set up Git according to http://teach.github.com/articles/github-class-prerequisites

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About Matthew McCullough

Matthew McCullough is an energetic 15 year veteran of enterprise software development, open source education, and co-founder of Ambient Ideas, LLC, a Denver consultancy. Matthew currently is VP of Training at GitHub.com, author of the Git Master Class series for O'Reilly, speaker at over 30 national and international conferences, author of three of the top 10 DZone RefCards, and President of the Denver Open Source Users Group. His current topics of research center around project automation: build tools (Gradle), distributed version control (Git, GitHub), Continuous Integration (Jenkins, Travis) and Quality Metrics (Sonar). Matthew resides in Denver, Colorado with his beautiful wife and two young daughters, who are active in nearly every outdoor activity Colorado has to offer.