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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 training-kit Public

    Open source courseware for Git and GitHub

    HTML 4.6k 4.4k

  2. choosealicense.com 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 scientist Public

    🔬 A Ruby library for carefully refactoring critical paths.

    Ruby 7.6k 454

  4. gh-ost gh-ost Public

    GitHub's Online Schema-migration Tool for MySQL

    Go 12.9k 1.3k

  5. github-mcp-server github-mcp-server Public

    GitHub's official MCP Server

    Go 20.7k 2k

Repositories

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  • rest-api-description Public

    An OpenAPI description for GitHub's REST API

    github/rest-api-description’s past year of commit activity
    1,515 MIT 270 202 24 Updated Aug 13, 2025
  • site-policy Public

    Collaborative development on GitHub's site policies, procedures, and guidelines

    github/site-policy’s past year of commit activity
    1,917 CC0-1.0 622 0 0 Updated Aug 13, 2025
  • opensource.guide Public

    📚 Community guides for open source creators

    github/opensource.guide’s past year of commit activity
    HTML 14,713 CC-BY-4.0 14,928 0 4 Updated Aug 13, 2025
  • entitlements-github-plugin Public

    Entitlements plugin to manage GitHub Orgs and Team memberships and access

    github/entitlements-github-plugin’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 24 MIT 7 1 1 Updated Aug 13, 2025
  • forgoodfirstissue Public

    Find your first issue for good to contribute to

    github/forgoodfirstissue’s past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 156 MIT 68 27 8 Updated Aug 12, 2025
  • advisory-database Public

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

    github/advisory-database’s past year of commit activity
    1,933 CC-BY-4.0 454 68 7 Updated Aug 13, 2025
  • github/metrics-exporter-statsd’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 31 MIT 13 1 2 Updated Aug 13, 2025
  • redacting-logger Public

    A redacting Ruby logger to prevent the leaking of secrets via logs

    github/redacting-logger’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 11 MIT 3 1 2 Updated Aug 12, 2025
  • codeql-action Public

    Actions for running CodeQL analysis

    github/codeql-action’s past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 1,319 MIT 377 141 (2 issues need help) 9 Updated Aug 12, 2025
  • hooks Public

    A Pluggable Webhook Server Framework written in Ruby

    github/hooks’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 4 MIT 1 0 4 Updated Aug 12, 2025