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Fall has come to the Northwest and so have Microsoft MVP Summit attendees. But, you don’t need to be an MVP to come join @haacked, @shiftkey and @half-ogre to shoot…

GitHub has a long tradition of supporting developer communities throughout the world. We throw drinkups, speak at and sponsor conferences, and host training events in most corners of the globe.…

By now you’ve heard that the third annual OctoCat Dodgeball Invitational is scheduled to commence this Sunday, November 17, at the Gene Friend Recreation Center in SOMA. After the tournament,…

There’s a lot happening on GitHub. As we reach closer and closer to 10 million repositories, there’s an astounding amount of activity happening every day. Our trending page is a…

Hey Toronto!! A bunch of us are coming to town to hang out with local boy @raganwald and thought it would be nice to hang out with some of our…

Join us on Thursday, November 14th, for the next event in our Passion Projects talk series with Ligaya Tichy. Ligaya loves the early stages of startups. She launched new markets…

John Britton and Matthew McCullough will be making a trek across Japan to host a series of talks and drinkups. We’d love to have you join us for one or…

Octokit is a family of client libraries for the GitHub API. Back in May, we released Octokit libraries for Ruby and Objective-C. Today we’re releasing the third member of the…

We’ve made some significant upgrades to the network infrastructure powering GitHub, and it’s time to turn off some of the old gear. We’ve updated DNS records to point at our…

Hello Shanghai! Join @bhuga and @PeterBell for a drinkup to kick off QCon Shanghai this Thursday! You don’t need to attend the conference to join us, and you don’t need…

Today we released an update to GitHub for Windows allowing you to quickly see when a branch is no longer in sync with its remote. Right next to the sync…

Join us on Tuesday, October 29th, for the next event in our Passion Projects talk series with designer Jen Myers. Jen is a web designer and developer and part of…

Last year, 20 teams faced off on the dodgeball court, (in the name of charity, of course). It was a ton of fun, and we were able to raise over…

I’m in Nairobi for DEMO Africa this week. But before I check out all the inspiring tech projects in East Africa I thought it would be cool to get some…

I’ll be in Beijing with @dannygreg for RubyConf China next week, so join us next Friday for some drinks and fun at CheKu Cafe! You don’t need to attend the…