GitHubber

English

Etymology

From GitHub +‎ -er.

Noun

GitHubber (plural GitHubbers)

1. An employee of GitHub, Inc., a developer platform that allows developers to create, store, manage and share their code.
   • 2009, Tom Preston-Werner, “How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft (continued)”, in Chad Fowler, The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development, Raleigh, N.C.: The Pragmatic Bookshelf, →ISBN, part I (Choosing Your Market), chapter 6 (Don’t Listen to Your Parents), page 26:

     At 29 years old, I was the oldest of the three GitHubbers and had accumulated a proportionally larger amount of debt and monthly expenditure.

   • 2012 July 9, J. O’Dell, “Why GitHub abandoned the bootstrapper’s ship for a $100M Series A”, in VentureBeat‎^[1], archived from the original on 10 November 2022:

     GitHubbers are still committed to the principles of bootstrapping, especially for younger startups, and [Tom] Preston-Werner doesn’t think their messaging on that score will change any time soon.

   • 2014, Philip A. Foster, “GitHub: ‘Creating Awesome’—A Case Study”, in The Open Organization: A New Era of Leadership and Organizational Development, Farnham, Surrey: Gower Publishing Limited, →ISBN, part I (Foundations of an Open Organization), pages 32, 36, and 37:

     According to GitHubber Brian Doll, when GitHub first started, they just had a row of tables and everyone worked at the tables. […] An Open Organization may require a whole lot of arguing. GitHub is not a quiet place to work. […] GitHubbers see arguing as the process to making good decisions.

   • 2014 September, Shanley Kane, quoting Julie Ann Horvath, “Interview with Julie Ann Horvath”, in Model View Culture: New Writing on Technology, Diversity and Culture (Quarterly No. 3), San Francisco, Calif.: Feminist Technology Collective, Inc., →ISBN, page 12:

     I thought that’s how I become a good GitHubber -⁠- that’s the idea of success.

   • 2016, Yevgeniy Brikman, “Startup Culture”, in Hello, Startup: A Programmer’s Guide to Building Products, Technologies, and Teams, Sebastopol, Calif.: O’Reilly Media, Inc., →ISBN, part III (Teams), pages 411–412:

     For example, consider GitHub’s San Francisco headquarters. […] Past the waiting room is a massive open area, complete with a full bar, a cafeteria, foosball tables, ping-pong tables, pool tables, and a DJ station. This is where GitHubbers have lunch, hold meetups, and relax.