Friday June 26, 2026
1:30 - 4:30 PM
Karl Miller Center, 615 SW Harrison Street, Portland, OR
Room KMC TBD
This intermediate GitHub workshop is for participants who already know the basics and want to apply them to something real. Attendees will build a personal website using Quarto, manage content using GitHub branches and pull requests, and deploy the site automatically with GitHub Pages. The workshop introduces GitHub Actions through the Marketplace, focusing on adapting existing automations rather than writing complex workflows from scratch. Participants will leave with a working site and a reusable publishing pattern they can apply to documentation, portfolios, or project sites.
Knowledge Prerequisites: Basic familiarity with GitHub concepts such as repositories, branches, and pull requests. Prior experience with R or Markdown is helpful but not required.
Pre-Installations: A recent version of RStudio, Positron, or VS Code; a recent version of R; Git installed locally; and a GitHub account. The instructor will demonstrate Git operations using the GitHub Desktop app, but participants may use their preferred Git interface.
Instructor
Skyler Elmstrom
Pronouns: He/him/his
Location: Everett, Washington
Skyler Elmstrom is a Public Health Data Science and Informatics Specialist at the Washington State Department of Health. His work focuses on modern, reproducible analytics workflows using GitHub, Quarto, R, Python, and cloud platforms. He regularly teaches GitHub and documentation workflows to analysts and researchers across public-sector and academic settings, with an emphasis on practical skills people can immediately reuse.