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Could they use the blurb of text at the top to give me like... a noun to describe what this is? It just says some vagueness about the future and investigating a

by hbn 4y ago

Could they use the blurb of text at the top to give me like... a noun to describe what this is? It just says some vagueness about the future and investigating and exploring. Is it a conference? A team? An initiative? How does it work? Whatever this is supposed to be selling me on, they're doing a terrible job because I can't figure out what it is!

nvrspyx 4y ago
It seems to be a research team within GitHub based on the blurb, projects, and team.
tuukkah 4y ago
From Twitter bio: "GitHub Next: a team exploring the future of technology and software beyond the adjacent-possible." https://twitter.com/githubnext https://twitter.com/githubnext Their team consists of engineers and researchers.
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cush 4y ago
Did they add this in the last 40 mins? I'm seeing a pretty good description: " GitHub Next 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. "
- cmeacham98 4y ago
  That explains what it does (somewhat vaguely), but not what Github Next is and who makes it up. Is it a team at GitHub that employees work on full time? It it some kind of initiative where GitHub employees spend part of their time working on it? Is it a community effort? Am I able to join in?
  - cush 4y ago
    I don't have such high expectations for websites. It's just a showcase, and it really looks like a showcase site, so the description seemed good enough
  - FinalBriefing 4y ago
    I think you're thinking too hard about it. It's just a list of R&D projects that might be interesting to some people. Or maybe they just updated the site in the last hour. It's got a list of team members and events and stuff.
- JohnFen 4y ago
  It is? It reads like meaningless marketingspeak to me. It doesn't actually say what GitHub-Next is. I've read the whole page and I'm not sure what it is. I suspect it's a think tank, but I'm not certain.
buscoquadnary 4y ago
It's a sexy name by some middle manager somewhere, or some executive3 that got a good idea while taking a morning duce, to come up with an exciting new project that will juice their resume and hopefully get them promoted before it comes to the front that they do nothing and their objectives are entirely fluff. It's an old trick first called out in The Dilbert Principle that you get promoted by being associated with sexy sounding projects, the best case is a sexy sounding project that has vague objectives. Given the blurb above it sounds like there is very little substance to this and lots of style. Expect it to be sunset or fade into obscurity in 3-5 years. EDIT: For context their stated mission is > GitHub Next 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. Notice the lack of anything that will actually be produced, key words that you are dealing with BS is "explore", "approaches", and "change our craft" without any details on what any of that means. If they were producing or doing something they'd say that. As is it's meaningless marketing drivel that could translate better as "We've made up a fake job to play with cool tech, write ill-informed meaningless blog posts about what the next cool thing everyone should do is. We're also light on technical skills so we are going to focus on teams and projects not actual tech" I don't begrudge them the fact they weaseled their way into this job good for them, but I don't expect much, and If I am wrong and these are actually super smart talented individuals that finally got the freedom to make something happen then I apologize for my dismissiveness. That being said when companies get acquired by MS they don't tend to be known for their innovation and ground breaking research going forward.
- kyleee 4y ago
  great job though, if you can get it
  - blowski 4y ago
    Meh. I'd much rather have a job where I get the feeling of finishing something on an almost daily basis.
ffhhj 4y ago
It's just a rebranding of GitHub OCTO: https://github.com/githubocto https://github.com/githubocto
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idan 4y ago
Hi there! That's good feedback, and we updated the thing to make it clearer. Thank you!
ksec 4y ago
And I was expecting something new. But none of what they are showing are new or "Next". This is slightly worrying if this is the direction Github are heading.

by hbn 4y ago

nvrspyx 4y ago

It seems to be a research team within GitHub based on the blurb, projects, and team.

tuukkah 4y ago

From Twitter bio: "GitHub Next: a team exploring the future of technology and software beyond the adjacent-possible." https://twitter.com/githubnext https://twitter.com/githubnext Their team consists of engineers and researchers.

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cush 4y ago

Did they add this in the last 40 mins? I'm seeing a pretty good description: " GitHub Next 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. "

cmeacham98 4y ago
That explains what it does (somewhat vaguely), but not what Github Next is and who makes it up. Is it a team at GitHub that employees work on full time? It it some kind of initiative where GitHub employees spend part of their time working on it? Is it a community effort? Am I able to join in?
- cush 4y ago
  I don't have such high expectations for websites. It's just a showcase, and it really looks like a showcase site, so the description seemed good enough
- FinalBriefing 4y ago
  I think you're thinking too hard about it. It's just a list of R&D projects that might be interesting to some people. Or maybe they just updated the site in the last hour. It's got a list of team members and events and stuff.
JohnFen 4y ago
It is? It reads like meaningless marketingspeak to me. It doesn't actually say what GitHub-Next is. I've read the whole page and I'm not sure what it is. I suspect it's a think tank, but I'm not certain.

buscoquadnary 4y ago

It's a sexy name by some middle manager somewhere, or some executive3 that got a good idea while taking a morning duce, to come up with an exciting new project that will juice their resume and hopefully get them promoted before it comes to the front that they do nothing and their objectives are entirely fluff. It's an old trick first called out in The Dilbert Principle that you get promoted by being associated with sexy sounding projects, the best case is a sexy sounding project that has vague objectives. Given the blurb above it sounds like there is very little substance to this and lots of style. Expect it to be sunset or fade into obscurity in 3-5 years. EDIT: For context their stated mission is > GitHub Next 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. Notice the lack of anything that will actually be produced, key words that you are dealing with BS is "explore", "approaches", and "change our craft" without any details on what any of that means. If they were producing or doing something they'd say that. As is it's meaningless marketing drivel that could translate better as "We've made up a fake job to play with cool tech, write ill-informed meaningless blog posts about what the next cool thing everyone should do is. We're also light on technical skills so we are going to focus on teams and projects not actual tech" I don't begrudge them the fact they weaseled their way into this job good for them, but I don't expect much, and If I am wrong and these are actually super smart talented individuals that finally got the freedom to make something happen then I apologize for my dismissiveness. That being said when companies get acquired by MS they don't tend to be known for their innovation and ground breaking research going forward.

kyleee 4y ago
great job though, if you can get it
- blowski 4y ago
  Meh. I'd much rather have a job where I get the feeling of finishing something on an almost daily basis.

ffhhj 4y ago

It's just a rebranding of GitHub OCTO: https://github.com/githubocto https://github.com/githubocto

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idan 4y ago

Hi there! That's good feedback, and we updated the thing to make it clearer. Thank you!

ksec 4y ago

And I was expecting something new. But none of what they are showing are new or "Next". This is slightly worrying if this is the direction Github are heading.