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Patchwork Stockholm
Patchwork is headed to Stockholm! This event is open to beginners to Git and GitHub and mentors who want to help others learn. We'll have stickers for everyone and a…
GitHub Desktop 1.1 is now available
A fresh release of our Electron app is ready for your desktop. GitHub Desktop 1.1 builds on last year's Electron relaunch with new features and enhancements that help you bring…
Commit with confidence with new teacher training from GitHub
To support teachers who want to master GitHub, we’ve launched Campus Advisors—a training program built to help you commit with confidence and teach your students with real-world tools. Our inspiration…
Africa, Nigeria, and their growing tech communities
Growing tech communities across Africa will continue to push the continent’s digital revolution forward while powering societal and cultural changes, and a key part of moving this digital revolution forward…
Release Radar · January 2018
From tougher security to more beautiful source code images, our first Release Radar of 2018 has something for everyone. Check out the latest tools that have been delighting and delivering…
My first semester using GitHub at Rice University
In the third programming course in the computer science major, Dan Wallach wants students to master programming in Java with a high degree of rigor and at a large scale.…
Open source project trends for 2018
Last year, GitHub brought 24 million people from almost 200 countries together to code better and build bigger. From frameworks to data visualizations across more than 25 million repositories, you…
Weak cryptographic standards removal notice
Last year we announced the deprecation of several weak cryptographic standards. Then we provided a status update toward the end of last year outlining some changes we'd made to make…
Release Radar · December 2017
It's time to celebrate a fresh round of releases from our community—many of them 1.0s! The open source projects in this month's Release Radar are supported by the Apache foundation…
GitHub’s global policy predictions for 2018
With issues like net neutrality and digital news curation in headlines every day, we’re seeing the effects of the growing role that technology has in our lives more than ever.…
Join us at Git Merge 2018 in Barcelona
Before your 2018 calendar fills up, start planning your trip to Barcelona on March 8 for Git Merge—an event dedicated to the developer community's favorite version control tool. Whether you're…
‘Make a Ruckus’ to Protect Net Neutrality in the U.S.
Two years ago, we breathed a collective sigh of relief when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) passed the Open Internet Order—regulations allowing people to freely access and interact with information…
Hacktoberfest 2017: The results are in
Another Hacktoberfest has come and gone, and we couldn't be more proud of your contributions. With over 200,000 merged pull requests in almost 65,000 repositories, you made this our biggest…
Use any theme with GitHub Pages
Several years ago, Jekyll, the open source project that powers GitHub Pages, introduced shared themes. Since then, you have been able to use about a dozen themes to change the…
Give the gift of code this holiday season with 24 Pull Requests
24 Pull Requests is an annual community-organized event encouraging developers to give back to open source projects over the holiday season. Be part of this year's giving by submitting 24…
Introducing security alerts on GitHub
Last month, we made it easier for you to keep track of the projects your code depends on with the dependency graph, currently supported in Javascript and Ruby. Today, for…
Life as a GitHub Intern: the Making of GitHub Field Day
Wilhelm Klopp is a student at University College London (UCL), a Campus Expert, and creator of Simple Poll—one of the most popular Slack integrations. He spent the summer of 2017…
Introducing Teletype for Atom: Code collaboratively in real time
Writing code with other developers can be a great way to onboard teammates, get to know how your peers think, and learn new skills. Unfortunately, writing code together can be…
GitHub welcomes all CI tools
Continuous Integration (CI) tools help you stick to your team's quality standards by running tests every time you push a new commit and reporting the results to a pull request.…
And the theme for Game Off 2017 is…
Game Off—our fifth annual game jam celebrating open source is officially underway. The theme for this year’s jam is throwback. Let your imagination run wild and interpret that in any…