GitHub 101 Tutorial Justin Longo, Assistant Professor & Cisco Systems Research Chair in Big Data and Open Government Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy University of Regina slides etc. available at Twitter:

 Set up a new account on GitHub.com  Follow other Users  Watch and Star Projects  Join Organizations  Create your first project

 Pick a unique username (no spaces),  enter your address, and  enter a password of your choosing ( )  Click on “Sign up for GitHub”. Go to

 Select the “Free” account.  Do not select “Help me set up an organization next”  Click on “Finish sign up”. After you click on “Sign up for GitHub”, this screen will appear:

You’ll see this screen. We’ll start with “Tell us about yourself” to complete our user profile.

Complete your user account set-up: At any time, you can click on the down triangle beside your profile picture thumbnail in the top right corner to open your user settings: verify an address (verified s can be kept private), fill in your profile info, upload a photo from your hard drive, check your notification settings.

Click on the down triangle beside your profile picture thumbnail in the top right corner, then select “Your Profile” and you’ll be taken to your brand new profile page:

 Find users using the search box.  Once you are on a user’s page, click the "follow" button.  Advanced search:  Cheat Sheet:

 Search for a project page (e.g., the Web Experience Toolkit - boew/wet-boew ) boew/wet-boew  Watch: Click on the "watch" button at the top of the page. "Watch” means you will be closely following a project - you'll see all of that project's commits in your timeline.  Star: You can also “Star” a project to bookmark it. Activity from starred repositories does not show up in your dashboard feed.

 Organizations: help with the management of group-owned repositories, facilitate permissions.  Only “public” members are displayed (controlled by the user).  Only an organization administrator can add a user to the organization.  No onboard mechanism to request being added to an organization.  If there is no address for the organization, options include: sending an to a prominent organization member; make contributions and hope to be noticed; ask around your real org.

 On your profile page, in the top-right corner, select the + icon and click on “New repository” to get to this page: choose a “Repository name”. write a short description (“My first repo!” works) mark the repo as “Public” (you can only make it private by upgrading to a paid account). mark the check-box “Initialize this repository with a README” “.gitignore” = None <-- choose a license <-- Click on “Create Repository”.

 Congratulations - you just created your first repo!

 Complete your profile page.  Search for colleagues and other interesting GitHub users (like the person sitting beside you) and “Follow” them.  Search for projects and “Watch” or “Star” them.  Send a request to join an organization.  Edit your first repo.  Explore GitHub.

 GitHub Glossary (GitHub version): ry.md ry.md  This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No (VOSS: Managing Hybrid Challenge Platforms to Promote Innovation). Any opinion, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.VOSS: Managing Hybrid Challenge Platforms to Promote Innovation