2016 Dodgeball Tournament: Play – Sponsor – Donate!
We're looking forward to seeing you at the 2016 Dodgeball Tournament for friendly competition, team bonding, the chance to take home the OctoTrophy, and best of all, the opportunity to…
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Preview GitHub Pages metadata locally
A year ago, Jekyll sites on GitHub pages gained access to repository and organization metadata with the introduction of the site.github namespace. We recently moved our own site.github implementation to…
Patchwork St. Louis
Going to be in St. Louis next week for the FIRST Robotics Competition? Or maybe you're a St. Louis local who is curious about Git or GitHub? In either case,…
Call for proposals: CodeConf LA – June 27-29, 2016
CodeConf LA will converge June 27-29, 2016 in sunny Los Angeles for three days of unforgettable discussions. We're searching for the best talks that the open source community has to…
Meet Richard Davey, creator of Phaser
To highlight the people behind projects we admire, we bring you the GitHub Developer Profile blog series. Meet Richard Davey, the game developer behind Phaser — a free open source…
Patchwork Reading, UK
Patchwork comes back to Europe on April 19. If you're in the Reading, UK area, we hope you can come hang out with us at GROW@GreenPark. The event is open…
From the OctoTales video series: advancing cancer research through open source
There are no shortage of open source projects making an impact on our world, and we’ve been especially excited to see an increase in collaboration across the healthcare community. A…
Organizations can now block abusive users
Community is one of the most important aspects of open source, but sometimes a few bad actors can ruin the experience for the group. To help address the problem, organization…
Patchwork Philadelphia
Philadelphia friends, we hope you can join us for a Patchwork on April 12 at Pipeline Philly. If you're local or in town for Philly Emerging Tech, we'd love to…
A look behind our decision to standardize on a single Markdown engine for GitHub Pages
Two months ago, we announced that GitHub Pages is dropping support for the RDiscount, Redcarpet, and RedCloth (Textile) markup engines on May 1st. For the vast majority of users, this…
GitHub Satellite sessions preview
GitHub Satellite is the first-ever international event in the GitHub Universe series, and it's happening May 11, 2016, in Amsterdam. More than 500 developers, team leads, and open source contributors…
Saved replies
We know from community feedback and open source projects (like @notwaldorf’s Chrome extension) that replying with the same response to Issues and Pull requests over and over can be tedious.…
Meet Sean Marcia, founder of Ruby for Good
To highlight the people behind projects we admire, we bring you the GitHub Developer Profile blog series. If you know Sean Marcia, chances are that it’s through Ruby for Good,…
Atom reaches one million active users
We have reached an exciting milestone: one million people have launched some version of Atom in the last month. That's three times the number of active users we had under…
Patchwork Madison
We're happy to be hosting a Patchwork hack night in Madison, Wisconsin, and we hope you're able to come. If you're a beginner to Git and GitHub, or want to…
Learn from the experts: RSVP for workshops at Git Merge
At Git Merge—a conference for the Git community—you'll join developers who are committed to the future of Git. In addition to seeing an amazing lineup of speakers, attendees of all…
Creating a new contributor on-ramp
One of the most important elements of creating a strong community is shaping the new contributor experience. The on-boarding experience for new participants plays a huge role in how quickly…
Patchwork Portland
Portland friends, we hope you'll join us for a Patchwork hack night on March 29, that will be co-hosted with our friends at TaborSpace. If you're a beginner to Git…
Kindly Closing Pull Requests
Getting your first pull request from an outside contributor on GitHub is an exciting experience. Someone cared enough about the problem you were solving to check it out themselves, change…
Open Source Alley at OSCON: Call For Projects
OSCON is headed to Austin this year and we're bringing back the GitHub Open Source Alley. The alley features open source projects from across the community where they can chat…
CodeConf LA tickets are now on sale
CodeConf LA will converge June 27-29, 2016 in sunny Los Angeles for three days of unforgettable discussions. This year’s event will focus on systems engineering projects, practices, and programs in…