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user: benbalter
created: 2011-08-30
karma: 282

Ben Balter is a Senior Product Manager at GitHub, the world’s largest software development network, where he oversees the platform’s Community and Safety efforts. Named one of the top 25 most influential people in government and technology, Fed50’s Disruptor of the Year, and winner of the Open Source People’s Choice Award, Ben previously served as GitHub’s Government Evangelist, leading the efforts to encourage government at all levels to adopt open source philosophies for code, data, and policy development.

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/benbalter; my proof: https://keybase.io/benbalter/sigs/IwMvqtA_GWJDFWYDQHIQsxuBRhWp49sX27fK_Qlu_u4 ]

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No Agenda, No Meeting
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Practice Inclusive Scheduling
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Pull requests are a form of documentation
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Meetings are a point of escalation, not the starting point of a conversation
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Nine things a (technical) program manager does
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Resolutions for Sustaining and Growing Open Source Communities
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Use any theme with GitHub Pages
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SUPPORT file support on GitHub
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Open source license descriptions and metadata for GitHub repositories
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Behind GitHub's decision to standardize on one Markdown engine for GitHub Pages
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Upgrading your Textile posts to Markdown
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The six types of pull requests you see on GitHub
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25 reasons why you should consume, publish, contribute to, and support open source
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Four characteristics of modern collaboration tools
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