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How people build software.

Hey, this is us 👋

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Yes, we are building GitHub on GitHub. In fact, we’ve been doing this since October 19th, 2007. That's when we made our first commit. Since then we pushed over 2.5 million commits, opened over 1 million issues, submitted roughly 650k pull requests across 4357 repositories from over 50 countries 🤯. But that's just us. We are proud to be part of the work of millions of developers, companies and robots across the solar system 🪐. Yes, Robots!

🍿 An interconnected community

The open source community is the 💗 heart of GitHub and fundamental to how we build software today. See for yourself:

  • GitHub Sponsors helped support more than 5k individuals and projects around the world 🌍
  • Open source projects on GitHub received a stunning 218 million contributions 🚀 in the last year alone
  • Every minute a developer creates a new release 🏄 for a public project on GitHub

Now that we are talking about the important things ☝️, are you contributing to open source? Yes? Okay, you rock! 🎸 If not, we can help you get started! Open source software is made by people just like you. Learn more about how to contribute.

🦦 Contributing to the ecosystem

We contribute to the tools 🔧 we rely on to build and run GitHub, while also maintaining 🧙‍♂️ our own open source projects like:

👓 Appendix

See what's next on our public roadmap ✨ and let us know if you have any suggestions 🙇‍♂️. Oh, and by the way, we are always hiring talented, passionate people to join our team 🙌.

"Tell me more, I can't get enough!"

🤫 Psst! You can create your own organization README.

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  1. training-kit training-kit Public

    Open source courseware for Git and GitHub

    HTML 4.2k 4.3k

  2. choosealicense.com choosealicense.com Public

    A site to provide non-judgmental guidance on choosing a license for your open source project

    Ruby 3.6k 1.3k

  3. scientist scientist Public

    🔬 A Ruby library for carefully refactoring critical paths.

    Ruby 7.4k 438

  4. gh-ost gh-ost Public

    GitHub's Online Schema-migration Tool for MySQL

    Go 12.1k 1.2k

  5. covid-19-repo-data covid-19-repo-data Public

    Data archive of identifiable COVID-19 related public projects on GitHub

    496 178

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  • advisory-database Public

    Security vulnerability database inclusive of CVEs and GitHub originated security advisories from the world of open source software.

    github/advisory-database’s past year of commit activity
    1,666 CC-BY-4.0 304 50 38 Updated Jul 6, 2024
  • docs Public

    The open-source repo for docs.github.com

    github/docs’s past year of commit activity
    JavaScript 15,762 CC-BY-4.0 58,604 43 (13 issues need help) 36 Updated Jul 6, 2024
  • explore Public

    Community-curated topic and collection pages on GitHub

    github/explore’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 4,191 CC-BY-4.0 12,501 2 7 Updated Jul 6, 2024
  • forgoodfirstissue Public

    Find your first issue for good to contribute to

    github/forgoodfirstissue’s past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 52 MIT 17 3 5 Updated Jul 6, 2024
  • codeql Public

    CodeQL: the libraries and queries that power security researchers around the world, as well as code scanning in GitHub Advanced Security

    github/codeql’s past year of commit activity
  • open-data-on-github Public

    Dataset files for the Open Data on GitHub paper

    github/open-data-on-github’s past year of commit activity
    Python 24 3 0 1 Updated Jul 6, 2024
  • innovationgraph Public

    GitHub Innovation Graph

    github/innovationgraph’s past year of commit activity
    Python 338 CC0-1.0 30 3 0 Updated Jul 6, 2024
  • government-open-source-policies Public

    Dataset of Government Open Source Policies

    github/government-open-source-policies’s past year of commit activity
    Python 68 CC-BY-4.0 6 1 0 Updated Jul 6, 2024
  • transparency Public

    Structured data files for topics covered by GitHub's Transparency Report

    github/transparency’s past year of commit activity
    Python 20 CC-BY-4.0 2 0 0 Updated Jul 6, 2024
  • branch-deploy Public

    Enabling Branch Deployments through IssueOps with GitHub Actions - If you find this project useful, give it a star! ⭐️

    github/branch-deploy’s past year of commit activity
    JavaScript 344 MIT 44 1 2 Updated Jul 6, 2024