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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 4.4k 4.4k

  2. choosealicense.com choosealicense.com Public

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

    Ruby 3.8k 1.4k

  3. scientist scientist Public

    🔬 A Ruby library for carefully refactoring critical paths.

    Ruby 7.5k 445

  4. gh-ost gh-ost Public

    GitHub's Online Schema-migration Tool for MySQL

    Go 12.6k 1.3k

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

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

    522 180

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  • secure_headers Public

    Manages application of security headers with many safe defaults

    github/secure_headers’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 3,166 MIT 252 24 6 Updated Feb 17, 2025
  • 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
    1,805 CC-BY-4.0 364 59 15 Updated Feb 17, 2025
  • docs Public

    The open-source repo for docs.github.com

    github/docs’s past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 16,978 CC-BY-4.0 60,915 36 (18 issues need help) 7 Updated Feb 17, 2025
  • github-ospo Public

    Helping open source program offices get started

    github/github-ospo’s past year of commit activity
    672 MIT 60 13 1 Updated Feb 17, 2025
  • 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
    CodeQL 8,000 MIT 1,601 823 (4 issues need help) 367 Updated Feb 17, 2025
  • request-marketplace-action Public

    Actions workflows to help organizations manage the process of users requesting to use GitHub Actions from Marketplace and approving or denying such requests within an organization.

    github/request-marketplace-action’s past year of commit activity
    Dockerfile 23 4 0 3 Updated Feb 17, 2025
  • jekyll-commonmark-ghpages Public

    CommonMark generator for Jekyll used by GitHub Pages

    github/jekyll-commonmark-ghpages’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 64 MIT 17 9 1 Updated Feb 17, 2025
  • ruby Public Forked from ruby/ruby

    development fork of ruby/ruby

    github/ruby’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 194 5,657 0 0 Updated Feb 17, 2025
  • automatic-contrib-prs Public

    Automatically open a pull request for repositories that have no CONTRIBUTING.md file

    github/automatic-contrib-prs’s past year of commit activity
    Python 35 MIT 13 0 1 Updated Feb 17, 2025
  • opensourcefriday Public

    🚲 Contribute to the open source community every Friday

    github/opensourcefriday’s past year of commit activity
    HTML 1,191 MIT 162 0 1 Updated Feb 17, 2025