Organizations can now add community health files to a specially named .github repository to serve as organization-wide defaults for all repositories within their organization. You can add CONTRIBUTING, SUPPORT, CODE_OF_CONDUCT,…
Let’s look at the past year of the GitHub Community Forum as we celebrate its first anniversary.
The open source community proves that when creative people get together on an open platform, great things happen: Code gets better, new technologies emerge, and the way we build software…
With GitHub Universe one month away we are excited to announce our 2017 Community Partners! We choose Community Partners based on several criteria but the three main questions we ask…
Through dozens of global partnerships, GitHub is committed to investing in communities traditionally underrepresented in tech. As part of that initiative, we’re expanding our partnership with Maven, a national non-profit…
We’re introducing two new tools to help maintain and grow open source communities. Recommended community standards As an open source project grows beyond code, it can be difficult to maintain…
We just released an open data set for the open source community, researchers, and curious data wonks to study. The data includes responses from 5,500 open source participants randomly sampled…
If you haven’t grabbed your GitHub Satellite ticket yet, we’re making it easier to get there. A select number of free tickets are now available through scholarships and community partners.…
With the continuous shipping nature at GitHub, it’s easy for the most well-intentioned feature to accidentally become the vector of abuse and harassment. The Community & Safety engineering team focuses…
A new graph is available in the “Graphs” tab to visualize your repository’s data. With the dependents graph, you can now explore how repositories that contain Ruby gems relate to…
Building software should be safe for everyone. The GitHub community is made up of millions of developers around the world, ranging from the new developer who created their first “Hello…
Community Partners are helping us build a diverse, inclusive environment at GitHub Universe. We select partners based on several criteria but the three main questions we ask ourselves when reaching…
Just in time for back-to-school preparations, we welcome you to join a new forum for technology education: education.github.community This supportive environment will allow educators to collaborate with each other, and…
Since we are only a few days away from CodeConf LA, we’re happy to announce our Community Partners for the next conference in our 2016 lineup. Community Partners are chosen…
Join the European developer community at GitHub Satellite in Amsterdam on May 11 to hear how organizations like Facebook, Heroku, GOV.UK, and Spotify are building software and contributing to open source. We’ll also…
To stimulate the growth and show our support of the student hacker community, we’ve partnered with Major League Hacking (MLH) to provide each new member hackathon with a $1,000 grant…
At the heart of what makes GitHub great are the thousands of open source communities that build incredible things every day. The brand new GitHub Community Cast shines a light…
At Microsoft Build 2015, we announced deep GitHub integration in Visual Studio 2015, along with GitHub Enterprise 2.2.0. This release will help developers who work with the Microsoft stack make…
REST API insights for organizations is now generally available
An interview with economic researchers analyzing the causal effect of GitHub Copilot on how open source maintainers work.
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