[ANNOUNCE] Contributor's Summit updates

Hi again,

Following up on my earlier announcements[1, 2], I have some more details for the Contributor Summit at Git Merge this year:

  When:  September 30th, 11am-4pm(ish) PDT (UTC-7)
  Where: GitHub HQ, 88 Colin P Kelly Jr St, San Francisco, CA 94107
  What:  Contributor's Summit
  Who:   Git contributors (more below)

If you haven't yet registered for the Contributor's Summit (whether or not you are planning on attending in person), you can do so using the following link:

    https://git-merge-2025.eventbrite.com/

In order to grab tickets for the Contributor's Summit, **you'll have to enter in the special code "git-20-25" to expose that as an add-on**.

As a reminder: the Contributor's Summit is intended only for Git contributors or people working on projects or related tools in the Git ecosystem. If you're not sure whether or not that includes you, please feel free to ask :-).

We're using a large conference room on the first floor of GitHub's offices for the Contributor's Summit, and will have large speakers and screens for remote attendees, as well as many microphones for in-person folks. For folks participating remotely, we'll send out a Zoom link a day or two before the main event.

As before, the main conference schedule and agenda are available at the usual location:

    https://git-merge.com

, and I look forward to seeing many of you there, either in-person or virtually! :-)

Thanks, Taylor

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/Z+L3Mt58n18KUNzs@nand.local/ [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/aEyiLhDjSzQhpJnK@nand.local/

On Thu, Aug 28, 2025 at 05:03:57PM -0400, Taylor Blau wrote:

Oops, small correction.

In keeping with what we've done in the past to make the main conference free for those attending the Contributor's Summit, we're going to do things slightly differently

 - If you are interested in attending the Contributor's Summit, please
   e-mail me off-list to request a code which will get you access to
   the Contributor's Summit and the main conference for free.

 - If you have already registered for the Contributor's Summit but paid
   for a ticket to the main conference, please also e-mail me off-list
   and I can refund you for the value of the main conference ticket.

As a result, the "git-20-25" code will no longer do anything ;-).

Thanks, Taylor

On Thu, Aug 28, 2025 at 05:16:28PM -0400, Taylor Blau wrote:

Another small update: if you have topic(s) that you would like to either present on or discuss, please **e-mail me off-list for a link to a spreadsheet to collect a list of topics**.

In the past we've voted on these things ahead of the Contributor's Summit, but I don't think this was very effective since it was hard to know when to stop accepting topics and when to start voting on them. I figure that this year we can try something new and vote on topics to discuss at the start of the Contributor's Summit, and then organize our day around that.

If others have suggestions for how to run the day, please feel free to let me know either here or off-list.

Thanks, Taylor

On Thu, Aug 28, 2025 at 05:03:57PM -0400, Taylor Blau wrote:

If I understand correctly here, I'd want to join the Contributor's Summit remotely, the only thing I need to do is get a free remote pass?

Thanks, Jialuo