Learning and development day February 2019

Rough agenda

This is the first draft agenda when I was asked to do this intro - most of it is covered in the [project board] but I'm popping it here to try an cover anything I might have missed.

Slack

WHAT IS SLACK

• a communication tool
• a discussion tool
• team environments / channels
• direct messaging

HOW SLACK WORKS

• create a user account
• logging in
• where's the desktop app?
• use it on your phone
• setting your preferences

HOW WE USE SLACK

• Who can create channels?
• Private vs Public channels
• team channels, project channels, subject channels
• #cake, #pop and #random

HOW WE DON'T USE SLACK

• Slack is transient
• Slack is limited
• Slack is subject to FOI requests
• Slack is still on the internet

Github

WHAT IS GITHUB

• Source code
• How git works
• Beyond the source code
• Issues and Pull requests
• Project boards
• Wiki

HOW WE USE GITHUB

• 2FA
• Examples
  • An issue logging and tracking tool
  • A project/sprint/process tracking tool
  • As documentation
  • As a knowledge base

GITHUB'S POWERFUL Features

• Searching issues
• Task lists
• Project automation

HOW WE DON'T USE GITHUB

• Public repos can be read and found by anyone

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Some notes

• I'll try not to be too technical
• Ask questions (I don't know everything, not even nearly everything)
• It's not the right way the right way, or the best way, or even the only way of using Slack or Github. It's just a way.
• I'll throw in some tips that might be useful - but you'll probably learn better ways
• There's lots I don't know and plenty that's beyond the scope of this talk - but try it out
• Create a sandbox in your personal Github and see what you can do
• Take advantage of the fact that Slack lets you talk to yourself
• Get the Slack app on your phone and you'll have a neat way of sharing things between devices
• You can set yourself "away" and set times not to get notifications