Open Source

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.

Maintainers

Maintainer spotlight: Mariatta Wijaya

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.

Open Source

Release Radar · April 2019

We’re sharing new and exciting releases from world-changing technologies to weekend side projects in the April 2019 edition of Release Radar.

Open Source

XPRIZE awards $15M for open source, scalable education software

The XPRIZE Foundation challenged teams to develop open source software to help children learn basic reading, writing, and arithmetic—learn more about the challenge and who won.

Git

Git ransom campaign incident report—Atlassian Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab

Today, Atlassian Bitbucket, GitHub, and GitLab are issuing a joint blog post in a coordinated effort to help educate and inform users of the three platforms on secure best practices relating to the recent Git ransomware incident. Though there is no evidence Atlassian Bitbucket, GitHub, or GitLab products were compromised in any way, we believe it’s important to help the software development community better understand and collectively take steps to protect against this threat.

Gaming

Game On—what was it like to make games during the 80s?

Join us for a chat with Kevin Savetz and Steve Meretzky about developing video games for Infocom in the 1980s.

Open Source

Release Radar · March 2019

We’re sharing new and exciting releases from world-changing technologies to weekend side projects in the March 2019 edition of Release Radar.

Open Source

Release Radar · February 2019

We’re sharing new and exciting releases from world-changing technologies to weekend side projects in the February 2019 edition of Release Radar.

Git

Highlights from Git 2.21

A look at some of the new features in recent Git releases.

Open Source

Release Radar · January 2019

Welcome to the January 2019 edition of Release Radar, where we share new and exciting releases from world-changing technologies to weekend side projects. Most importantly, they’re all projects shipped by you.

Maintainers

Maintainer spotlight: Safia Abdalla

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.