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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.

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GitHub Action Hero: Swechhya Bista

GitHub Actions gives you the power to automate your workflow. Connect with the tools you know and love. Have more freedom to innovate and be creative. Deploy to any cloud,…

Maintainer spotlight: How to secure your project with one of the world’s top open source tools

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.

Highlights from Git 2.28

The open source Git project just released Git 2.28 with features and bug fixes from over 58 contributors, 13 of them new. We last caught up with you on the…

What we learned from building an industry coalition

Securing the open source supply chain is critically important for developer communities and the entire software ecosystem. In recent years, the industry has seen an uptick in the adoption of…

Git Credential Manager Core: Building a universal authentication experience

Authentication is a critical component to your daily development. When working in open source, you need to prove that you have rights to update a branch with git push. Additionally…

Ludum Dare 46 staff picks

10 games from Ludum Dare 46 for your entertainment and source code-viewing pleasure.

Git credential helper vulnerability announced (Update)

Learn more about the security vulnerabilities affecting Git 2.26.1 and older.

Git credential helper vulnerability announced

Learn more about the security vulnerabilities affecting Git 2.26 and older.

Learn about open source in the social sector from our latest report

Learn more about open source’s impact in the social sector from the Open Source for Good research paper.

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.

Highlights from Git 2.26

Take a look at some of the new features in the latest Git release.

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.

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