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Open Source
The vast majority of businesses today rely on open source, making it an essential part of the software industry. And millions of those projects are on GitHub. Learn about documentation, maintainers, gaming Git, licenses, and how open source positively impacts the world. You can also find information in our documentation about how to build and foster sustainable open source communities.
Celebrating 15 years of Git: An interview with Git maintainer Junio Hamano
GitHub is built on Git, and as Git celebrates its 15th anniversary, our own Jeff King interviews Git maintainer Junio Hamano about Git’s impact over the years.
Getting started with GitHub Sponsors
This quickstart guide walks you through several ways you can start pursuing funding for your open source work.
Show open source some love and win a GitHub Hoodie with #OpenSourceValentine
Share your love for open source and learn how to get involved for a chance to win a GitHub hoodie.
The Arctic Code Vault starts production and your open source projects are being archived
On 02/02/2020 we took a snapshot of every active public repository on GitHub to be archived for a thousand years in the Arctic Code Vault. Learn about what’s included, how you can help us improve it, and more.
Browse good first issues to start contributing to open source
Want to contribute to open source, but not sure where to begin? GitHub now helps you find good first issues to get you started.
How we built the good first issues feature
We’ve recently launched good first issues recommendations to help new contributors find easy gateways into open source projects. Read about the machine learning engine behind these recommendations.
Bring your monorepo down to size with sparse-checkout
Git 2.25.0 includes a new experimental git sparse-checkout command that makes the existing feature easier to use, along with some important performance benefits for large repositories.
Game Off 2019 Winners
Thousands of game developers from all over the world participated in Game Off, our annual game jam celebrating open source. Let’s take a look at 2019’s winners.
Multiple Git vulnerabilities in 2.24 and older
Learn more about the security vulnerabilities in Git 2.24 and older.
Game Off 2019 theme announcement
The 2019 theme for Game Off, our annual month-long game jam and hackathon for building games is LEAPS AND BOUNDS. Join now!
Thirteen spooktacular games to play, hack, and slash this Halloween 🧙🏻♀️
Make a pillow fort and grab some candy (and a friend) before you play and hack your way through 13 of the spookiest game jam games.
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The GitHub Podcast
Catch up on the GitHub podcast, a show dedicated to the topics, trends, stories and culture in and around the open source developer community on GitHub.