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A band you can book via GitHub pull request

122 points by skrebe 11y ago

skrebe 11y ago
The only band I know you can book via GitHub pull request - Raw Funk Maharishi. They've got data focused blog too. Amazing http://rawfunkmaharishi.uk/blog/ http://rawfunkmaharishi.uk/blog/
- jamestanderson 11y ago
  They're who the post is talking about!
  - arnehormann 11y ago
    you are replying to the original poster.
    - jamestanderson 11y ago
      Oops. :)
      - hrayr 11y ago
        I loved the twists and turns on this one ;)
lwhalen 11y ago
I dig it!
helloguille 11y ago
Also, pull-request could become the suggestion book of the future
tixzdk 11y ago
Substack (creator of browserify among others) is also available through github, but not sure if through PRs: https://github.com/substack/music-for-hire https://github.com/substack/music-for-hire
rplnt 11y ago
> Fork the repo > Clone your fork > Create a branch That sounds like a reasonable alternative to email...
- grayclhn 11y ago
  That was my first thought too, but I bet the pull request approach is really hard to spam. As I get more and more quasi work-related spam emails, that looks more and more appealing.
  - khgvljhkb 11y ago
    I think easier to automate than to do by hand. All of this can be automated with sh, git & sed.
  - emodendroket 11y ago
    Hell, it works so well you won't even get legitimate requests.
- deckar01 11y ago
  You should be able to do all of this within the github UI without cloning locally.
- codeisawesome 11y ago
  Music can be a highly creative endeavour and perhaps that's what I should judge this "request our band for your event" UX on. But dang that's terrible UX, IMO. I wonder how negatively this affects their sales.
  - rplnt 11y ago
    It's a PR stunt, nothing more. It's innovative and it seems to work to get their name out there, albeit to a very specific demographic.
    - mrmcd 11y ago
jamespo 11y ago
Interesting, I might look at this after I've turned the kettle on via reddit comment
JoachimS 11y ago
I have never felt so sad seeing a repo with no pull requests. ;-)
kdamken 11y ago
So neat, but wow is that not the best way of doing something. It's good publicity, but you immediately cut the amount of people who can contact you down to just programmers. Much better to have a basic site with a phone number, email and contact form. I wrote that and then googled them, to see what they had (http://rawfunkmaharishi.uk/book-the-band/ http://rawfunkmaharishi.uk/book-the-band/). Once again, asking to be contacted through facebook and twitter isn't really ideal, a contact form would be a welcome addition to this page.
- icebraining 11y ago
  Have you considered that cutting the amount of people who can contact them might be the point? It's like those job ads hidden in the HTML of websites - you reduce the population but increase the signal-to-noise ratio.
  - kdamken 11y ago
    I hadn't, but I'd be surprised if that were the case. Usually bands want to get as many fans and gigs and as much publicity as they can. It seems odd that they would only want programmers as fans, unless they were especially pretentious.
    - diffraction 11y ago
      it worked for they might be giants
  - moftz 11y ago
    It's a gig band. They play bars and clubs for whatever money they can get from cover charges. Limiting the number of places that can book you is dumb. Plus, its not like they have to book everyone that requests them.
    - iamdave 11y ago
      Something tells me this isn't the only way they'll allow themselves to be contacted for bookinng....
daodedickinson 11y ago
Pretty lame! But, musicians are always desperate to stand out somehow and this is far from the bottom of the barrel.
dheera 11y ago
-___- I thought this was being able to get rights to use a frequency band ...
kazinator 11y ago
A good name for this band would be "Inappropriate Metaphor".
- Ironchefpython 11y ago
  It's the "Anti-Pattern Tour", with "Inappropriate Metaphor" being joined on stage by the techno-rock band "Impedance Mismatch", followed by the soulful sounds of "Leaky Abstraction". "I hope they play their old stuff like 'You Ain't Gonna Need It", and 'Now You Have Two Problems'. Their new album, 'Second-Systems Syndrome', took forever to be released, and doesn't have the same simple sounds".
  - deleted 11y ago
    [deleted]
  - ahstilde 11y ago
    What's wrong with YAGNI?
mrmcd 11y ago
Yes, but, what if I wanted to get the blockchain involved somehow?
Terribledactyl 11y ago
Tangent: I really like the idea of a calendar backed by git, submit a patch / pull request for some of my time. Everyone can see your master branch, maybe a branch for private events. You know, backed by git, don't expose even the porcelain commands.

122 points by skrebe 11y ago

The only band I know you can book via GitHub pull request - Raw Funk Maharishi. They've got data focused blog too. Amazing http://rawfunkmaharishi.uk/blog/ http://rawfunkmaharishi.uk/blog/

jamestanderson 11y ago
They're who the post is talking about!
- arnehormann 11y ago
  you are replying to the original poster.
  - jamestanderson 11y ago
    Oops. :)
    - hrayr 11y ago
      I loved the twists and turns on this one ;)

lwhalen 11y ago

I dig it!

helloguille 11y ago

Also, pull-request could become the suggestion book of the future

tixzdk 11y ago

Substack (creator of browserify among others) is also available through github, but not sure if through PRs: https://github.com/substack/music-for-hire https://github.com/substack/music-for-hire

rplnt 11y ago

> Fork the repo > Clone your fork > Create a branch That sounds like a reasonable alternative to email...

grayclhn 11y ago
That was my first thought too, but I bet the pull request approach is really hard to spam. As I get more and more quasi work-related spam emails, that looks more and more appealing.
- khgvljhkb 11y ago
  I think easier to automate than to do by hand. All of this can be automated with sh, git & sed.
- emodendroket 11y ago
  Hell, it works so well you won't even get legitimate requests.
deckar01 11y ago
You should be able to do all of this within the github UI without cloning locally.
codeisawesome 11y ago
Music can be a highly creative endeavour and perhaps that's what I should judge this "request our band for your event" UX on. But dang that's terrible UX, IMO. I wonder how negatively this affects their sales.
- rplnt 11y ago
  It's a PR stunt, nothing more. It's innovative and it seems to work to get their name out there, albeit to a very specific demographic.
  - mrmcd 11y ago

jamespo 11y ago

Interesting, I might look at this after I've turned the kettle on via reddit comment

JoachimS 11y ago

I have never felt so sad seeing a repo with no pull requests. ;-)

kdamken 11y ago

So neat, but wow is that not the best way of doing something. It's good publicity, but you immediately cut the amount of people who can contact you down to just programmers. Much better to have a basic site with a phone number, email and contact form. I wrote that and then googled them, to see what they had (http://rawfunkmaharishi.uk/book-the-band/ http://rawfunkmaharishi.uk/book-the-band/). Once again, asking to be contacted through facebook and twitter isn't really ideal, a contact form would be a welcome addition to this page.

icebraining 11y ago
Have you considered that cutting the amount of people who can contact them might be the point? It's like those job ads hidden in the HTML of websites - you reduce the population but increase the signal-to-noise ratio.
- kdamken 11y ago
  I hadn't, but I'd be surprised if that were the case. Usually bands want to get as many fans and gigs and as much publicity as they can. It seems odd that they would only want programmers as fans, unless they were especially pretentious.
  - diffraction 11y ago
    it worked for they might be giants
- moftz 11y ago
  It's a gig band. They play bars and clubs for whatever money they can get from cover charges. Limiting the number of places that can book you is dumb. Plus, its not like they have to book everyone that requests them.
  - iamdave 11y ago
    Something tells me this isn't the only way they'll allow themselves to be contacted for bookinng....

daodedickinson 11y ago

Pretty lame! But, musicians are always desperate to stand out somehow and this is far from the bottom of the barrel.

dheera 11y ago

-___- I thought this was being able to get rights to use a frequency band ...

kazinator 11y ago

A good name for this band would be "Inappropriate Metaphor".

Ironchefpython 11y ago
It's the "Anti-Pattern Tour", with "Inappropriate Metaphor" being joined on stage by the techno-rock band "Impedance Mismatch", followed by the soulful sounds of "Leaky Abstraction". "I hope they play their old stuff like 'You Ain't Gonna Need It", and 'Now You Have Two Problems'. Their new album, 'Second-Systems Syndrome', took forever to be released, and doesn't have the same simple sounds".
- deleted 11y ago
  [deleted]
- ahstilde 11y ago
  What's wrong with YAGNI?

mrmcd 11y ago

Yes, but, what if I wanted to get the blockchain involved somehow?

Terribledactyl 11y ago

Tangent: I really like the idea of a calendar backed by git, submit a patch / pull request for some of my time. Everyone can see your master branch, maybe a branch for private events. You know, backed by git, don't expose even the porcelain commands.