GitHub-Tutorial

As The Verge reports Microsoft acquires GitHub. According to The Verge GitHub was "last valued at $2 billion back in 2015, but it's not clear exactly how much Microsoft has paid to acquire GitHub." The Verge also considers the purchase as a promotion of Microsoft's open source strategy and suspects the acquisition could meet mistrust in the open source scene.

Quick notes on yet another attempt to marry the task of editing a taxonomic classification with versioning it in GitHub.The idea of dumping the whole GBIF classification into GitHub as a series of nested folders looks untenable.

Inspired by a comment on my post Visualising edit history of a Wikipedia page, the code I use to make history flow diagrams like the one below is now in GitHub at https://github.com/rdmpage/wikihistoryflow.There is also a live version at http://iphylo.org/~rpage/wikihistoryflow.

Good news - the Ion Torrent Suite is now freely available open source software on GitHub under the GPL v2 licence, as promised late last year. There is now something more substantial behind talk of Ion Torrent " democratising sequencing ", and a clear advantage over the closed source tools of rival companies. I commend them!