Flat explores how to make it easy to work with data in git and GitHub. It builds on the “git scraping” approach pioneered by Simon Willison to offer a simple pattern for bringing working datasets into your repositories and versioning them, because developing against local datasets is faster and easier than working with data over the wire.
The team at GitHub Next is focused on enabling new developer workflows. They’ll walk through how their Flat Data project makes it easy to bring data from anywhere on the web directly into your own repos for processing, analyzing, and versioning.
Async meets monthly in Brighton & Hove, UK, to learn, discuss and play with JavaScript and related web technologies. They host talks, hack nights, show n’ tells and community events, all of which are free.