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…
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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…
Patchwork El Paso
We're excited to announce a Patchwork hack night on March 18, that will be co-hosted with our friends at University of Texas, El Paso. If you're a high school or…
Add Reactions to Pull Requests, Issues, and Comments
Every day, thousands of people are having conversations on GitHub around code, design, bugs, and new ideas. Sometimes there are complex and nuanced points to be made, but other times…
GDC Party 2016
Tens of thousands of game developers will descend upon San Francisco next week for the annual Game Developers Conference (GDC). But what would GDC be without the parties? Come by…
Issue and Pull Request templates
It's hard to solve a problem when important details are missing. Now project maintainers can add templates for Issues and Pull Requests to projects, helping contributors share the right details…
Meet Judy Gichoya, Doctor and Developer
To highlight the people behind projects we admire, we bring you the GitHub Developer Profile blog series. Judy Gichoya is a medical doctor specializing in radiology, but she’s also an…
Patchwork NYC
We hope you'll join us on February 10 at WorkMarket for a casual night of hands-on hacking and learning about Git, GitHub, and GitHub Pages. We'll be unveiling our new…
GitHub Pages now faster and simpler with Jekyll 3.0
GitHub Pages is now running the latest major version of Jekyll, Jekyll 3.0, and with it, many of the complexities associated with publishing have been further simplified, meaning it's now…
Working with submodules
Eventually, any interesting software project will come to depend on another project, library, or framework. Git provides submodules to help with this. Submodules allow you to include or embed one…