Maintainers play a crucial role in open source projects and serve as the backbone of the open source ecosystem. Get insights into effective project management and community building techniques to create a welcoming and productive environment for contributors. You can also find information in our documentation around how to build and foster sustainable open source communities.
Simon Bennetts is the OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) Project Leader and a Distinguished Engineer at StackHawk, a company that uses ZAP to help users fix application security bugs before they hit production. Prior to making the move into security, he was a developer for 25 years and strongly believes that you can’t build secure web applications without knowing how to attack them.
This quickstart guide walks you through several ways you can start pursuing funding for your open source work.
Share your love for open source and learn how to get involved for a chance to win a GitHub hoodie.
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.
Want to contribute to open source, but not sure where to begin? GitHub now helps you find good first issues to get you started.
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.
We’re sharing interviews from several open source contributors about their projects, challenges, and what a GitHub sponsorship means to them. This week, hear from Chrissy LeMaire.
We’re sharing interviews from several open source contributors about their projects, challenges, and what a GitHub sponsorship means to them. This week, hear from Daniel Stenberg.
Hello, this is Devon from the GitHub Sponsors Team! It’s been incredibly motivating for us to see the outpouring of enthusiasm for the launch and to hear your ideas for where you’d like to see it go from here. We’re just getting started, and your input is important to keep us going in the right direction.
We’re sharing interviews from several open source contributors about their projects, challenges, and what a GitHub sponsorship means to them. This week, read about Siân Griffin.
We’re sharing interviews from several open source contributors about their projects, challenges, and what a GitHub sponsorship means to them. This week, read about Mariatta Wijaya.
In the spirit of Black History Month, throughout February we’re featuring Black maintainers who are making impactful contributions to the world through open source.
We’re making it easier for maintainers to grow healthy open source communities on GitHub with minimized comments, retired namespaces for popular projects, and new pull request requirements.
Open source software powers the internet. Anyone using a computer uses open source, either directly or indirectly. Although it has become the industry standard, getting involved isn’t always straightforward. Because…
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