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@jnareb tells us it’s that time of year again – the Git User’s Survey 2009 is up! Please take a few minutes to participate. Remember: all questions are optional and…

We’re going to try and hold a GitHub Meetup in SF every fortnight (read: two weeks) at a bar or restaurant. After all, the best part of any tech meetup…

It’s the 25th edition of Rebase! If you’re feeling nostalgic and want to dive through the previous issues, check out the archive here. Featured Project pinax is a Django-based platform…

The BBC has open sourced Glow, their internally developed JavaScript library. img http://img.skitch.com/20090708-j3njets5q1g11kd5phuiy8akxq.png http://www.bbc.co.uk/glow Check out What is Glow? for their FAQ or just grab the source right here on…

Jason Meridth has produced a follow up to his excellent Git for Windows blog post. The newest blog post details sign up, creating a repository, pushing, branching, status – all…

Less than a year and half after our public launch, GitHub surpassed 100k users last night. Thanks to all for signing up, here’s a simple graph I whipped up courtesy…

Thanks to everyone who came out! I asked those present to share an open source project of theirs. Here are a few: simple_gate – A Ruby library for using net/ssh/gateway’s…

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I’m in Amsterdam for Kings of Code (which was awesome) and will be at Cafe de Jaren Thursday (the 2nd) at 8pm. img http://img.skitch.com/20090701-j9wkp5qcgwh873r1ckaah3fjjw.jpg http://is.gd/1ks44 Stop by and have a…

Welcome back to Rebase! Want your project featured? Check out the guidelines and remember: the more information on your README/project page the better! Featured Project blue-ridge is a no-hassle JavaScript…

Yesterday you pushed 17,160 times to GitHub for a total of 44,287 unique commits. You also pushed an additional 9,577 non-unique commits. img http://img.skitch.com/20090626-qbmem33nmmwjnj7pygre22f654.png Thanks.

@hivelogic has a great, in-depth tutorial on Deploying ExpressionEngine from GitHub with Capistrano. img http://img.skitch.com/20090625-px5tn5xx49w1qi97apmj96ehtu.png http://hivelogic.com/articles/view/deploying-expressionengine-github-capistrano Thanks Dan!

Inspired by the Merb Internals Handbook, the Grails community has begun working on a handbook of their own: The Grails Internals Handbook. From the README: If you want to contribute,…

If you’re in New York, or are interested in Open Government initiatives, you may be excited to know that the New York State Senate has opened up to the online…