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Bio

Brock Whitten is a Software Engineer in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia. Formerly at cloud computing company Joyent and co-creator of the PhoneGap project, he is now working with Rob Ellis on solving the latest problems in the mobile space. Brock has a history of speaking at conferences and is an advocate of open web standards. Brock finds it hard to overstate the value of a good API and feels performance matters. Great software invariably has two qualities—fast, and easy to use.

Articles

Coder Wall

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  Forked 100

  Have a seriously badass project that's been forked at least 100 times

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  Octopussy

  Have a repo followed by a member of the GitHub team

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  Altruist

  Increase developer well-being by sharing at least 20 open source projects

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  Honey Badger 3

  Have at least three Node.js specific repos

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  Honey Badger

  Have at least one original Node.js-specific repo

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  Opabinia

  Started social coding on GitHub within 6 months of its first signs of life

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  Walrus

  The walrus is no stranger to variety. Use at least 4 different languages throughout all your repos

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  Lemmings 100

  Write something great enough to have at least 100 watchers of the project

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  Kilo of Lemmings

  Establish a space in the open source hall of fame by getting at least 1000 devs to watch a project

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  Forked 50

  having a project with a thriving community of users that's been forked at least 50 times.

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  Forked 20

  having an established project that's been forked at least 20 times.

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  Forked

  Have a project valued enough to be forked by someone else

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  Charity

  Fork and commit to someone's open source project in need

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  Mongoose 3

  Have at least three original repos where Ruby is the dominant language

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  Mongoose

  Have at least one original repo where Ruby is the dominant language

Speaking

Projects