Things you might have missed 🔍

Q4 Kickoff recap

Check out a recap of the Q4 Kickoff meeting here with a link to the recording, slides, and speaker script. Also, these recaps are now linked in the handbook so they can be referenced longer-term.

Merge photos and highlight video

Our next company offsite is 87 days away in Costa Brava, Spain! If our last offsite is any indication, we have a lot to look forward to with this event. Take a trip down memory lane to our first Merge in Cancun, Mexico, with these event photos and highlight video. 

Teammate changes

In Q3, eight teammates joined Sourcegraph, 28 teammates left, and 14 teammates were promoted. For real-time updates on new hires, promotions, and role changes, join #teammate-announce and #teammate-departures. We’ll also continue to share a comprehensive view in each issue of this newsletter. 

Things happening right now ⏱️

We've launched PageRank-powered search results

PageRank-based search results ranking is live on Sourcegraph.com, thanks to the herculean efforts of the #ranking team. The new results ranking effectively measures code reuse. This means search rankings prioritize relevant & reusable code, saving time for our users. The new ranking is live on Sourcegraph.com and will come to customer instances in the future. 

November anniversaries

Take a few minutes to congratulate these teammates on their Sourcegraph anniversaries. Thank you for everything you’ve contributed to Sourcegraph, we’re lucky to have you! 

GitHub Universe

GitHub Universe was this week,  and ultimately they announced far less about code search than we were expecting. Strategy-wise, our team's focused on the right things (being a code intelligence platform, becoming cloud-first and more product-led, and Strategic-readiness), so GHU didn't significantly shift anything for our team. Check out #wg-github-competition for all of the action, but here are a few takeaways:

• GitHub code search and code view moved from technical preview to beta (and is still only available via waitlist). See this post for details.
• Our plan is to paint a really exciting picture of what we’ll be shipping in the future and push GitHub to open up API integrations into code search/nav so we can make those better. See this post for details.
• To learn more about Github's offering, you can check out their promotional video and blog post.

Refreshed slide deck template

Thanks to Tracey Johnson, our Sourcegraph slide template got a design refresh. You can check out the new template here and start using it today. 

Things coming up 🚀

AMA with Dan Adler

On Tuesday, Dan Adler's taking on hosting duties for the live AMA session. Have questions about Sourcegraph’s financial health, the market, or something else you want Dan’s thoughts on, drop them here (anonymously) or in #exec-ama. Live questions are always welcome too!

What’s SCIP and why should you care?

Have you heard casual mentions of "SCIP"  at Sourcegraph, but don't fully understand what it is? Thanks to Olaf Geirsson we now have a new crash course that will explain the basics and answer questions like:

• What is SCIP?
• Why is SCIP relevant for different teams at the company? 
• How do you work with SCIP? 
• What are the next steps for SCIP?

Gaining a better understanding of SCIP will inform the kinds of conversations we have about Sourcegraph's code intelligence products.