{"id":4307,"date":"2016-11-25T00:04:07","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T23:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/e3mag.com\/?p=4307"},"modified":"2019-04-01T08:57:31","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T06:57:31","slug":"enabling-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/enabling-collaboration\/","title":{"rendered":"Enabling Collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With over 30 million monthly website visitors, is considered <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-78atq1wkbpcvm6cxisylxsq0zjx5grzb\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">GitHub<\/span> as one of the most successful <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-62exq427f0fxxseyqt1rrbtkgpic15hr\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Open Source<\/span>-projects in recent years.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-5uj1w6o3m4t29282ebw5x3zxzn1es49n\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">GitHub<\/span> was founded in 2008 by the US-Americans Tom Preston-Werner, P.J. Hyett and Chris Wanstrath in <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-1rcq3fdk8d1xs8kav156pbr8khoiacc8\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-place\">San Francisco<\/span> founded. The <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-rr6k4au5slsm09jr0i3fng55s6tyw4y5\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Idea<\/span> it was, <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-es0qbmofqiqtg1zjh64rl3kizuefutuh\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Software<\/span>-builds, the software development process that automatically generates a finished application program.<\/p><div id=\"great-2408485907\" class=\"great-fullsize-content-en\" style=\"margin-bottom: 20px;\"><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6yfv7eho3Gc\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Fullsize\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150.jpg\" alt=\"Fullsize\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-400x50.jpg 400w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-768x96.jpg 768w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-100x13.jpg 100w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-480x60.jpg 480w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-640x80.jpg 640w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-720x90.jpg 720w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-960x120.jpg 960w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-1168x146.jpg 1168w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-18x2.jpg 18w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-600x75.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" width=\"1200\" height=\"150\"  style=\" max-width: 100%; height: auto;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>In the meantime <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-q4fis8r7whmiqdxmyvkvm54tl7w3t5ka\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">GitHub<\/span> the largest source code host, and Wanstrath finds himself on the Forbes list of the richest U.S. Americans under 40 - with an estimated fortune of $500 million.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-1ai78ffxg45l8bjh5296phucn71lz8ss\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">GitHub<\/span>, which is initially a social media platform for professional <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-yi0ij55h4ekp1hhujzbjfcethvx14j76\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Software Developer<\/span>. Similar to Twitter, members can follow each other, rate the work of others, and download updates for projects, as well as communicate privately and publicly.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-z3lbs2jc4xfwmo9ijeed3f6mh7erhsnr\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">GitHub<\/span> is based on <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-lsvhnjy4c6jkr8agy96igvl4wgod11wf\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Git<\/span>, a <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-x9xtieapkpng6uyg2myatla2wwgpnigy\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Open Source<\/span>-code management system developed by Linus Torvald, one of the fathers of the <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-0qkow95crlhwbpvc2xdd7mq0yxcagowi\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Linux<\/span>-kernels, was developed.<\/p>\n<h3><span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-9cp53j3emw4norebsn0qhpftysyw9x49\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Git<\/span> as version management<\/h3>\n<p>As a decentralized system, Git makes it possible to create and manage different versions of files. In addition to the pure changes, further information about a version is stored, such as date and time, author or change notes.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-6k30dletcx220bcfg7vkbek5n5grc3s5\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">GitHub<\/span> acts as an online host for <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-vmusna6sgrp6qm5er65xr26bwcn1mbw6\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Git<\/span> Repositories. A repository is a directory in which digital objects can be stored. <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-rnocswga8piz3f549h3xya6293ctqnra\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">GitHub<\/span> behaves like a server for collaborative projects - and thus enables social coding. The use is free of charge, as long as the code is shared.<\/p>\n<p>Since the platform is relatively intuitive to use, it is a powerful <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-ism77fb2xcjrkboyytz4fndkx883kxs5\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Tool<\/span> for version control and for <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-1dxuzaqtm7ujxrdgaukowv8wykmqk19e\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Collaboration<\/span> have become. <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-0rlxridh76hn5udzue0kfvyfhuwo3enq\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">GitHub<\/span> enables <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-kvjl24h7ycer881pjwkhnndmwajbl6ze\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Software developers<\/span>, to connect across organizational boundaries and collaborate with the greatest possible transparency.<\/p>\n<p>In the course of the digital transformation, more and more companies are becoming software companies, even outside the traditional IT industry. Many of them have already <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-bze2po4b8rfba5o98hpdivf0lsiunzeu\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">GitHub<\/span> as a standard for social<span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-yyor64njyhrnfy59g4xcb9732d7lt9l5\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Collaboration<\/span>-Processes implemented.<\/p>\n<h3>Software development covers all areas of life<\/h3>\n<p>In the next few years, the digital transformation will not only affect companies.<\/p>\n<p>Kakul Srivastava, vice president of product management at <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-zci60ch627owre3crm1benq7fps1slfq\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">GitHub<\/span>:<\/p>\n<p><em>\"More and more people will use software code as a matter of course in their everyday work without thinking of themselves as developers\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The task, he said, is to provide the best possible support for this process and to further simplify cooperation.<\/p>\n<h3>Social Coding at SAP<\/h3>\n<p>SAP has also recognized the trend. Back in 2014, the company set itself the task of improving the developer experience.<\/p>\n<p>The challenge was that SAP has a very integrated stack where teams develop their applications. SAP is also built on an integrated version management system and development mechanism.<\/p>\n<p>In the course of the <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-mnbap65b8uc4881m62a2m22zmqtrqt1r\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Cloud, but native!<\/span>-The transformation of the company has given individual teams more and more responsibility. The opening up to <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-htqyrryzvlwlpjyshhpccz6wfeyujf7f\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Open Source<\/span> and <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-oybwwk36fdbabymad2j89kbqhtm4i6pl\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">GitHub<\/span> According to Thomas Jansen, Product Manager at SAP, this not only enables better collaboration between teams.<\/p>\n<p>Since <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-j6kuto1aif81ws2nzdtficdo105qc4n3\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Git<\/span> has established itself as a standard in the scene, it is now also easier to integrate new employees into the workflows more quickly.<\/p>\n<p>SAP wants to work even more closely with the developer community in the future. With the update of the Hana<span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-fo3izj18b0kbt5obnpkxs6s0m5j6urq8\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Cloud, but native!<\/span>-platform, for example, SAP recently introduced <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-pojasq1jew7zt6zpkkszfdxulg3h76p2\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Cloud, but native!<\/span>-portal content such as templates for apps and websites of the <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-0tx07btsl7s9e3k0tknbypqcf94rqn7k\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Open Source<\/span>-Community about <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-wh7mnu0a0h99hzb5zopmufpwu5dkipbs\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">GitHub<\/span> available.<\/p>\n<p>As SAP experts and partners contribute more and more content, the SAP community is able to design user-friendly interfaces for businesses.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Git is considered one of the most important innovations for software developers of the past decade. But what is GitHub anyway?<\/p>","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":4308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,740],"tags":[39,933,506,400],"coauthors":[19920],"class_list":["post-4307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-management","category-mag1612","tag-cloud","tag-github","tag-open-source","tag-software","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NURredaktionell-shutterstock_497537557.jpg",1000,667,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NURredaktionell-shutterstock_497537557-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NURredaktionell-shutterstock_497537557.jpg",400,267,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NURredaktionell-shutterstock_497537557-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NURredaktionell-shutterstock_497537557.jpg",1000,667,false],"image-100":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NURredaktionell-shutterstock_497537557-100x67.jpg",100,67,true],"image-480":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NURredaktionell-shutterstock_497537557-480x320.jpg",480,320,true],"image-640":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NURredaktionell-shutterstock_497537557-640x427.jpg",640,427,true],"image-720":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NURredaktionell-shutterstock_497537557-720x480.jpg",720,480,true],"image-960":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NURredaktionell-shutterstock_497537557-960x640.jpg",960,640,true],"image-1168":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NURredaktionell-shutterstock_497537557.jpg",1000,667,false],"image-1440":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NURredaktionell-shutterstock_497537557.jpg",1000,667,false],"image-1920":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NURredaktionell-shutterstock_497537557.jpg",1000,667,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NURredaktionell-shutterstock_497537557.jpg",1000,667,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NURredaktionell-shutterstock_497537557.jpg",1000,667,false],"trp-custom-language-flag":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NURredaktionell-shutterstock_497537557.jpg",18,12,false],"bricks_large_16x9":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NURredaktionell-shutterstock_497537557.jpg",1000,667,false],"bricks_large":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NURredaktionell-shutterstock_497537557.jpg",1000,667,false],"bricks_large_square":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NURredaktionell-shutterstock_497537557.jpg",1000,667,false],"bricks_medium":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NURredaktionell-shutterstock_497537557.jpg",600,400,false],"bricks_medium_square":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NURredaktionell-shutterstock_497537557.jpg",600,400,false],"profile_24":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NURredaktionell-shutterstock_497537557-24x24.jpg",24,24,true],"profile_48":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NURredaktionell-shutterstock_497537557-48x48.jpg",48,48,true],"profile_96":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NURredaktionell-shutterstock_497537557-96x96.jpg",96,96,true],"profile_150":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NURredaktionell-shutterstock_497537557-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"profile_300":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NURredaktionell-shutterstock_497537557-300x300.jpg",300,300,true]},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"<p>Git gilt als eine der wichtigsten Neuerungen f\u00fcr Softwareentwickler der vergangenen zehn Jahre. 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