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How people build software.

Hey, this is us 👋

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Yes, we are building GitHub on GitHub. In fact, we’ve been doing this since October 19th, 2007. That's when we made our first commit. Since then we pushed over 2.5 million commits, opened over 1 million issues, submitted roughly 650k pull requests across 4357 repositories from over 50 countries. 🤯 But that's just us. We are proud to be part of the work of millions of developers, companies and robots across the solar system. 🪐 Yes, Robots!

🍿 An interconnected community

The open source community is the 💗 heart of GitHub and fundamental to how we build software today. See for yourself:

  • GitHub Sponsors helped support more than 5k individuals and projects around the world 🌍
  • Open source projects on GitHub received a stunning 218 million contributions 🚀 in the last year alone
  • Every minute a developer creates a new release 🏄 for a public project on GitHub

Now that we are talking about the important things, ☝️ are you contributing to open source? Yes? Okay, you rock! 🎸 If not, we can help you get started! Open source software is made by people just like you. Learn more about how to contribute.

🦦 Contributing to the ecosystem

We contribute to the tools 🔧 we rely on to build and run GitHub, while also maintaining 🧙‍♂️ our own open source projects like:

👓 Appendix

See what's next on our public roadmap ✨ and let us know if you have any suggestions. 🙇‍♂️ Oh, and by the way, we are always hiring talented, passionate people to join our team. 🙌

"Tell me more, I can't get enough!"

🤫 Psst! You can create your own organization README.

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  1. training-kit Public

    Open source courseware for Git and GitHub

    HTML 4.5k 4.4k

  2. choosealicense.com Public

    A site to provide non-judgmental guidance on choosing a license for your open source project

    Ruby 3.8k 1.4k

  3. scientist Public

    🔬 A Ruby library for carefully refactoring critical paths.

    Ruby 7.5k 449

  4. gh-ost Public

    GitHub's Online Schema-migration Tool for MySQL

    Go 12.7k 1.3k

  5. covid-19-repo-data Public archive

    Data archive of identifiable COVID-19 related public projects on GitHub

    533 184

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  • salsa Public

    SLSA (Salsa) L3 Complaint Reusable Workflows

    Shell 1 MIT 2 0 0 Updated Apr 17, 2025
  • advisory-database Public

    Security vulnerability database inclusive of CVEs and GitHub originated security advisories from the world of open source software.

    1,850 CC-BY-4.0 390 62 8 Updated Apr 17, 2025
  • maintainermonth Public

    A month for maintainers to gather & share

    JavaScript 185 MIT 37 14 (2 issues need help) 0 Updated Apr 17, 2025
  • rest-api-description Public

    An OpenAPI description for GitHub's REST API

    1,477 MIT 259 173 14 Updated Apr 17, 2025
  • gh-gei Public

    Migration CLI for GitHub to GitHub migrations

    C# 349 MIT 101 144 5 Updated Apr 17, 2025
  • codeql Public

    CodeQL: the libraries and queries that power security researchers around the world, as well as code scanning in GitHub Advanced Security

    CodeQL 8,227 MIT 1,654 837 (4 issues need help) 360 Updated Apr 17, 2025
  • github-mcp-server Public

    GitHub's official MCP Server

    Go 11,524 MIT 584 49 (1 issue needs help) 22 Updated Apr 17, 2025
  • safe-settings Public
    JavaScript 691 ISC 167 132 23 Updated Apr 17, 2025
  • jekyll-commonmark-ghpages Public

    CommonMark generator for Jekyll used by GitHub Pages

    Ruby 66 MIT 18 9 0 Updated Apr 17, 2025
  • docs Public

    The open-source repo for docs.github.com

    TypeScript 17,254 CC-BY-4.0 61,533 30 (14 issues need help) 11 Updated Apr 17, 2025