Five reasons why organizations should invest in open source
Learn about the top five reasons why leading enterprise organizations are investing in open source.
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We’re challenging you to create your very own GitHub Actions
Starting March 5, we’re hosting an online GitHub Actions Hackathon challenging you to create original Actions.
GitHub partners with HackYourFuture
GitHub is now a proud sponsor of Hack Your Future, a not-for-profit coding school for refugees and other people that have limited access to education and the labor market. Learn more about the latest campaign, Behind the Source.
Automating MySQL schema migrations with GitHub Actions and more
In this deep dive, we cover how our daily schema migrations amounted to a significant toil on the database infrastructure team, and how we searched for a solution to automate the manual parts of the process.
Announcing GitHub India
We’re bringing GitHub closer to communities in India to better serve students, developers, maintainers, enterprise customers, and everyone helping to create the future of open source.
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.
GitHub Desktop 2.3 removes obstacles to help you be more productive
GitHub Desktop brings two features that avoid permission failures: rerouting when pushing to a cloned repository and rerouting when pushing to a protected branch.
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.
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.
Presenting CodeNaija: A hackathon hosted by Andela and GitHub’s Blacktocats
CodeNaija is a GitHub-led Hackathon where we hosted over 100 software engineers for over 30 hours of learning and passionate discussions about technology.
Behind the scenes: GitHub security alerts
Learn more about what’s behind the scenes with GitHub vulnerability alerts.
Diversity, inclusion, and belonging at GitHub in 2019
We're proud to share the progress we've made over the past year and the work we're doing to grow our diverse workforce.