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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 4.6k 4.4k

  2. choosealicense.com Public

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

    Ruby 3.9k 1.4k

  3. scientist Public

    🔬 A Ruby library for carefully refactoring critical paths.

    Ruby 7.6k 451

  4. gh-ost Public

    GitHub's Online Schema-migration Tool for MySQL

    Go 12.8k 1.3k

  5. github-mcp-server Public

    GitHub's official MCP Server

    Go 16.1k 1.1k

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  • codeql Public

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

    CodeQL 8,434 MIT 1,714 853 (4 issues need help) 389 Updated Jun 20, 2025
  • forgoodfirstissue Public

    Find your first issue for good to contribute to

    TypeScript 144 MIT 65 0 5 Updated Jun 20, 2025
  • spark-template Public template
    TypeScript 4 MIT 0 0 7 Updated Jun 20, 2025
  • dependabot-action Public

    Runs Dependabot Updates via GitHub Actions.

    TypeScript 100 MIT 51 0 8 Updated Jun 20, 2025
  • rest-api-description Public

    An OpenAPI description for GitHub's REST API

    1,497 MIT 265 187 16 Updated Jun 20, 2025
  • codeql-action Public

    Actions for running CodeQL analysis

    TypeScript 1,285 MIT 365 136 (2 issues need help) 12 Updated Jun 20, 2025
  • ruby Public Forked from ruby/ruby

    development fork of ruby/ruby

    Ruby 194 5,743 0 0 Updated Jun 20, 2025
  • advisory-database Public

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

    1,902 CC-BY-4.0 437 65 7 Updated Jun 20, 2025
  • codeql-coding-standards Public

    This repository contains CodeQL queries and libraries which support various Coding Standards.

    CodeQL 154 MIT 67 99 11 Updated Jun 20, 2025
  • maintainermonth Public

    A month for maintainers to gather & share

    JavaScript 211 MIT 45 17 (2 issues need help) 2 Updated Jun 20, 2025