Octocat Holiday Ornament
For those of us in the United States, many of our families have collected White House holiday ornaments over the years. With the Octocat’s history of celebrating moments, we thought…
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For those of us in the United States, many of our families have collected White House holiday ornaments over the years. With the Octocat’s history of celebrating moments, we thought…
Last month, we released the Octocat figurine, finally taking our mascot into the third dimension. For years, we’ve illustrated her in different themes—from human culture to pop culture—so a figurine…
Microsoft announced at their Connect event last week that they will be open sourcing much of the .NET technology stack, as well as moving development of these technologies over to…
For years, the Octocat has been stuck in the realm of two dimensions—but no more! Now she’s crawling off your laptop and onto your desk as a 5" vinyl figurine.…
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and to help the cause, we’re offering a new shirt in the GitHub Shop. All proceeds from the sales of this shirt will be…
Wear our new GitHub Flow shirt and show off how easy it is to merge pull requests with high fashion. Check it out in the GitHub Shop.
In the summer of 2009, The New York Senate was the first government organization to post code to GitHub, and that fall, Washington DC quickly followed suit. By 2011, cities…
If you're a fan of animated GIFs and GitHub, then you may have seen this one on the internet: At long last, you can now get your very own Octocat…
We're happy to announce a new Patchwork hack night at the beautiful ustwo studio in London. Learning open source, together Patchwork is a hands-on workshop for learning Git and GitHub.…
Back in April I said we would share the new initiatives we're launching to ensure GitHub is a welcoming and inclusive company. This work is long term and will remain…
GitHub is being used today to build scientific software that's helping find Earth-like planets in other solar systems, analyze DNA, and build open source rockets. Seeing these projects and all…
Lots of businesses today are experimenting with open source, both by maintaining open source projects and also by internalizing open source workflows. However, adopting open source tools in a business…
Last Monday I published the least open and least transparent blog post GitHub has ever written. We failed to admit and own up to our mistakes, and for that I'm…
Last month, a number of allegations were made against GitHub and some of its employees, including one of its co-founders, Tom Preston-Werner. We took these claims seriously and launched a…
This weekend, GitHub employee Julie Horvath spoke publicly about negative experiences she had at GitHub that contributed to her resignation. I am deeply saddened by these developments and want to…