Oct 28, 2026 · 39 min · 10 segments
Cassidy and GPS welcome GitHub VP of Developer Relations (and original GitHub Podcast host) Martin Woodward. Martin reflects on attending every Universe since its earliest days, then digs into what he…
Martin WoodwardGuest
Cassidy WilliamsHostGPSHost
If you wouldn't mind talking about that and just some of the things that you're excited about at Universe this year.
I'm glad you're recording this a little bit early before we go on stage because we're currently running around with our hair on fire.
I'm going to be covering the fun stuff at the end, kind of talking about the community behind GitHub and all the great things that we can do together.
And it doesn't matter if, you know, you're listening to this and you're not in Fort Mason in San Francisco when you're listening to this.
The conference is available online and all the content will also be available after the conference.
Before we dive in, Martin, can I know when was your first universe and what was your favorite thing of that universe?
And I've actually got a picture of me that I'll dig out and share of me in the back of a taxi carrying like a box of t-shirts to my first GitHub universe.
And coming from the Microsoft world back then, it was like, what is this? Because I was expecting some sort of developer conference.
And it was like I was being invited to some underground rave down by the key in San Francisco.
along the way but then we moved from there to Palace of the Fine Arts and things like that or sort of Starfleet headquarters is what I know it as out towards the gate and then we've been at Fort Mason the past few years so it's been good it's been interesting to see how it's evolved over the years but importantly it's when the whole community comes together and you can kind of feel that by the event I think you know it's more of like a world's fair of software rather than like a vendor conference I hope so anyway
That's something where before I joined GitHub, I was attending online just because I could never make it out to the conference.
If you wouldn't mind talking about that and just some of the things that you're excited about at Universe this year.
I'm glad you're recording this a little bit early before we go on stage because we're currently running around with our hair on fire.
I'm going to be covering the fun stuff at the end, kind of talking about the community behind GitHub and all the great things that we can do together.
And it doesn't matter if, you know, you're listening to this and you're not in Fort Mason in San Francisco when you're listening to this.
The conference is available online and all the content will also be available after the conference.
Before we dive in, Martin, can I know when was your first universe and what was your favorite thing of that universe?
And I've actually got a picture of me that I'll dig out and share of me in the back of a taxi carrying like a box of t-shirts to my first GitHub universe.
And coming from the Microsoft world back then, it was like, what is this? Because I was expecting some sort of developer conference.
And it was like I was being invited to some underground rave down by the key in San Francisco.
along the way but then we moved from there to Palace of the Fine Arts and things like that or sort of Starfleet headquarters is what I know it as out towards the gate and then we've been at Fort Mason the past few years so it's been good it's been interesting to see how it's evolved over the years but importantly it's when the whole community comes together and you can kind of feel that by the event I think you know it's more of like a world's fair of software rather than like a vendor conference I hope so anyway
That's something where before I joined GitHub, I was attending online just because I could never make it out to the conference.
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