{"id":5027,"date":"2019-06-20T16:21:59","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T16:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/?p=5027"},"modified":"2019-06-20T16:35:52","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T16:35:52","slug":"github-satellite-2019-berlin-the-social-code-its-just-dependencies-all-the-way-down-and-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/github-satellite-2019-berlin-the-social-code-its-just-dependencies-all-the-way-down-and-up\/","title":{"rendered":"GitHub Satellite 2019 Berlin. The Social Code – It\u2019s Just Dependencies All The Way Down and Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

The keynote at GitHub Satellite 2019 in Berlin last month was a model of crisp story-telling. The comms team did a bang up job. The opening narrative was engaging and emotionally powerful. It asked us to think about our place in the world, our role as collaborators, at a very deep level. It began, as some of the best stories do, at cosmic scale, with a black hole. Not just any black hole, but the black hole at the center of the Messier 87 galaxy.<\/span>\"\"<\/a>
\nDoctor Katie Bouman led the team that created the algorithm for Continuous High-resolution Image Reconstruction using Patch priors (CHIRP), and we were honored that she made an appearance at the event. It’s definitely worth watching the official video<\/a> on that score.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

GitHub\u2019s keynote expressed the value of collaboration at scale, particularly the value of telemetry data based on this collaboration. It demonstrated the value of a hosted platform in allowing new approaches to software maintenance and management, for example search and replace (grep and replace) globally, even across different codebases in multiple repos. GitHub has been delivering new features at a furious pace recently, and is finally beginning to significantly leverage it\u2019s incredible data assets based on instrumenting the work of software developers everywhere to create new products and services.\u00a0 <\/span>Key themes in the keynote were global interconnectedness, collaboration, sponsorship and security.<\/span><\/p>\n

What Katie (and a global team) Did<\/h1>\n

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As Doctor Katie Bouman made very clear in her presentation, science is collaborative. Scientific breakthroughs don\u2019t happen in isolation. The image of the black hole was based on the work of scores of people. At a simple level, Bouman said:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy role has been about combining techniques from astronomy and computer science\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Software isn’t just eating the world, it’s eating the universe. I had been told beforehand that Bouman would feature in the keynote, so I must admit that just for a moment when she appeared on screen I wished she\u2019d been able to make it to Berlin in person. Then this happened.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The complete team who worked on to capture the first black hole picture on stage during @natfriedman<\/a> keynote at #GitHubSatellite<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/jSYf7h5Qu3<\/a><\/p>\n

— Anupam Dagar (@anupamdagr) May 23, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n