The collective noun for developers is a "bikeshed" of developers. The document discusses various collective nouns for different animals like a murder of crows or a flamboyance of flamingos. It then considers potential collective nouns for developers before suggesting that a bikeshed is the best collective noun for developers.

1. What is the collective
noun for developers?
Camille Baldock, @camille_

3. Collective nouns
are amazing

4. !
hummingbirds

5. Bouquet
hummingbirds
of

6. flamingoes

7. Flamboyance
flamingoes
of

8. !
crows

9. Murder
crows
of

10. starlings

11. Murmuration
starlings
of

13. ______ of
developers

14. array of
developers

15. scrum of
developers

16. bikeshed of
developers

17. Phil Karlton
Only 2 hard things in computer science:
cache invalidation
and
naming things

18. Phil Karlton
Only 2 hard things in computer science:
cache invalidation
and
naming things

19. hanging out in
libraries

20. maths!

21. humans are
complicated

22. complex
vs
complicated

24. developers’
activity

25. developers
in the wild

26. movement

27. They always travel
in groups of five,
these programmers

29. information transfer
growing
making decisions

30. information
transfer

31. honey bees

32. wasps

33. social network
analysis

34. 200 most popular repositories
!
All pull request and issue comments, who
interacted with who

35. Most senior contributors interact less with
newcomers than “mid-level” contributors

36. nest
destruction
bike
colony
of wasps

37. growing

38. positive
feedback

39. 200 most popular repositories
!
All comments, measure positivity

40. great, awesome, thanks
!

41. More feedback
!
More growing

42. More positive feedback
!
Even more growing

43. making
decisions

44. 200 most popular repositories
!
200 repositories with most collaborators

45. 200 most popular repositories
!
people involved in each change

46. Condorcet
many wrongs

47. More collaborators?

48. More collaboration
per change!

49. swarm
intrusion of cockroaches

50. What are animals
doing better than us?

51. groupthink

52. collect independently
!
come back to group

53. The organisation should
set up several independent
groups, working on the
same problem.

54. Leaders should absent
themselves from many of the
group meetings to avoid
excessively influencing the
outcome.

55. anternet

56. nest
destruction
bike
colony
of wasps

57. swarm
intrusion of cockroaches

58. @camille_ your,votes,here

59. @camille_ superbikeshed,swarm

60. @camille_ superbikeshed,swarm
What is the collective
noun for developers?