2  Is this for you?

To help manage expectations and develop the material for this workshop, we make a few assumptions about who you are as a participant in the workshop.

We assume you can relate to one or more of the following:

• You want a gentle introduction to what GitHub is and how to use it.
• You mostly work alone or maybe irregularly with someone else on your project(s).
• You write text in documents as the main activity of your work (not code, for example).
• You are able to work on files—and are comfortable enough doing so—while only using a web browser interface (like GitHub’s or Google Docs’ interface).

While we have these assumptions about who you are, you are still welcome to attend if you don’t fit any of the assumptions. We welcome everyone until capacity has been reached.

In addition to the assumptions above, the workshop also has a fairly focused scope, which may also help you decide if this workshop is for you:

• We will not go over too many details of Git (a software that GitHub relies on).
• We will only interact with Git and GitHub from the website and from a web browser.
• We will only write text, meaning there will be no code or programming.
• While we will write in Markdown files (.md), we will not write or cover Markdown syntax.