OCTO

GitHub’s Office of the CTO investigates the future of software development.

We explore things beyond the adjacent possible. Tools and technologies that will change our craft. New approaches to building healthy, productive software engineering teams.

@githubOCTO bio

Speaker Series

August 19

Dr. Denae Ford Robinson

Microsoft Research

Golden Rules of Building Online Communities that Matter

Online communities for programmers, like Stack Overflow and GitHub, have norms that are not obvious nor inclusive to the 50 million programmers visiting monthly.

October 22

Simon Peyton-Jones

Microsoft Research

Computer science meets education, at scale

The UK is in the throes of a wholesale reform of school (K-12) education in computing, one that establishes computer science as a foundational discipline that all children learn from primary school onwards, just as they do maths and natural science.

upcoming

John Hughes

Chalmers University of Technology

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