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Game Off 2019 theme announcement
The 2019 theme for Game Off, our annual month-long game jam and hackathon for building games is LEAPS AND BOUNDS. Join now!
Thirteen spooktacular games to play, hack, and slash this Halloween 🧙🏻♀️
Make a pillow fort and grab some candy (and a friend) before you play and hack your way through 13 of the spookiest game jam games.
Get ready for Game Off
Join us for Game Off on November 1, where you can create your own game, learn a new technology, and even collaborate on something over the weekends with friends.
Highlights from the js13kGames 2019 competition
We take a look at the top 10 games as voted on by the community in the 8th annual JS13K competition.
GitHub Maintainer Scholarships are now available for GitHub Universe
Apply for a maintainer scholarship—and join us at GitHub Universe 2019 in San Francisco, November 13-14.
Maintainer spotlight: 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 Chrissy LeMaire.
Maintainer spotlight: Daniel Stenberg
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.
FAQ with the GitHub Sponsors team
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.
Maintainer spotlight: Sage 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 Siân Griffin.
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.
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.
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.
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The GitHub Podcast
Catch up on the GitHub podcast, a show dedicated to the topics, trends, stories and culture in and around the open source developer community on GitHub.