GitHub Monitor

A small experiment inside the max+robin collaboration: treat GitHub as a coordination layer and see what metrics are useful for people who do ecosystem coordination, facilitation, and community building — not traditional developers.

Core artifact

A dashboard — "coordination repo scout" — that surfaces trending GitHub projects by velocity across a curated list. You point it at an org or a set of repos; it tells you what's moving.

Why it exists

The premise is that coordination through GitHub is a viable organizational primitive. The open question driving the work:

What GitHub statistics would be valuable for people who do ecosystem coordination — not code review?

Specifically:

• What metrics reveal how healthy a collaboration is?
• How can non-developers use GitHub data to make better coordination decisions?
• Can GitHub stats help match people, projects, and communities?

What it could become

Longer-term, the same infrastructure extends into EventGraph — an open-source matchmaking layer that sits on top of existing conference tools (pretalx, Indico, Hi.Events) and connects the right people across events. Commercial competitors (Brella, Grip, Swapcard) charge $5K–$50K per event; there is no production-quality open-source alternative.

Phase 1 of EventGraph reuses the GitHub Monitor dashboard, extended with a "People" tab that surfaces connector-people via shared-contributor analysis.