Introducing government.github.com
Governments at all levels have been using GitHub for some time now to build better, more accessible websites, publish laws and data, and even collaborate on policies themselves. Today we’re…
Ben Balter
Ben Balter is Chief of Staff for Security at GitHub, the world’s largest software development platform. Previously, as a Staff Technical Program manager for Enterprise and Compliance, Ben managed GitHub’s on-premises and SaaS enterprise offerings, and as the Senior Product Manager overseeing the platform’s Trust and Safety efforts, Ben shipped more than 500 features in support of community management, privacy, compliance, content moderation, product security, platform health, and open source workflows to ensure the GitHub community and platform remained safe, secure, and welcoming for all software developers. Before joining GitHub’s Product team, Ben served as GitHub’s Government Evangelist, leading the efforts to encourage more than 2,000 government organizations across 75 countries to adopt open source philosophies for code, data, and policy development.
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Washington DC Drinkup
Hey Washingtonians, put down your paperwork and join @balevine, @benbalter, @bleything, @imbriaco, @jssjr, @lynnwallenstein, and @sroberts as we raise a 🍺 to toast surviving yet another summer of sweltering D.C.…
Cutting the GitHub Pages Gem
Building and testing GitHub Pages sites on your computer just got a whole lot easier with the release of the GitHub Pages Gem. Running Jekyll (the engine that powers GitHub…
GeoJSON rendering improvements
Nearly two weeks ago, we announced support for rendering geographic data. Today, we’re excited to roll out several improvements: GitHub now supports rendering TopoJSON, an extension of GeoJSON that encodes…
There’s a map for that
Not long ago, we began rendering 3D models on GitHub. Today we’re excited to announce the latest addition to the visualization family – geographic data. Any .geojson file in a…
Jekyll Turns 1.0
GitHub Pages — the easiest way to quickly publish beautiful pages for you and your projects — just got a major upgrade. We’re now running Jekyll 1.0.2, which contains over…
The Revolution Will Be Forked
Millions of people around the world use GitHub every day to build software together, but the GitHub Way™ isn’t limited to code. We are humbled to see that the White…