Introduction to GitHub for Team Projects
About the Workshop This session is a hands-on introduction to GitHub for people who work on community projects — whether that means organizing events, managing shared documents, coordinating coding projects, or tracking important resources. You don't need any coding experience. We'll cover what GitHub actually is (and isn't), how to create a repository for your project, how to use issues and project boards to track tasks, and how to invite collaborators so your whole team can contribute. By the end, you'll have a working project set up that you can take back to your organization.
About the Instructor
Aaron McKeever is a recent graduate of Columbia University, where he studied information science and specialized in computational linguistics. At Columbia, he worked as a research assistant and project lead across multiple teams, using tools such as GitHub, Python, and Linear to manage shared projects, track contributions, and coordinate work with remote collaborators. His personal research project — a digital history of early 20th-century industrial networks spanning the US, UK, and Germany — uses GitHub to manage key data files and sub-projects. Additionally, his work includes serving as a deputy board UX/UI designer and training lead on the Columbia Daily Spectator product team. Before Columbia, Aaron spent a year in Germany as a U.S. Department of State CBYX-Y scholarship recipient, and he currently works as an administrative and research professional in Washington, DC.
Huge thank you to our venue partner, The Yard, for hosting us for this workshop. Want to cowork at The Yard before or after our workshop? You can book a tour & one-time free day pass by emailing Shirry at [email protected].