Training > Open Source Best Practice > GitHub for Open Standards Development (LFD140)

Training Course

Advance your career in open standards. Mastering GitHub for specification governance, ensuring clarity, compliance, and trust from draft to release.

Who Is It For

Ideal for contributors, editors, governance leads, and OSPO professionals seeking to expand their impact and move into career-defining roles in open standards development.

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What You’ll Learn

Excel at GitHub workflows for open standards including structuring repos, managing roles and reviews, and automating governance, while gaining skills that elevate your career and position you as a trusted leader.

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What It Prepares You For

Get prepared for career-defining roles in open standards, including editor, chair, facilitator, and OSPO lead, with the governance skills that foundations and enterprises need.

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Course Outline

Chapter 1. Welcome to LFD140!

Chapter 2. Purpose-Driven Specification Workflows

Chapter 3. Structuring Repositories for Scale

Chapter 4. Git/GitHub for Team-Based Version Control

Chapter 5. Managing Collaboration Through Issues and Pull Requests

Chapter 6. Writing and Organizing Specs for Community Use

Chapter 7. Automation and Lightweight Governance

Chapter 8. Publishing, Licensing, and Stewardship

Chapter 9. Applied Assessment and Real-World Practice

Chapter 10. Where Do You Go From Here?

Prerequisites

You should be comfortable with GitHub basics—cloning, forking, submitting pull requests, and navigating Issues, branches, and commit history. Familiarity with open collaboration practices such as contributor review, consensus-building, and versioning is expected. You should also be able to read and edit Markdown. Experience with YAML, GitHub Actions, CODEOWNERS, or open standards workflows (e.g., IPR review, ratification) is helpful but not required.