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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 448

  4. gh-ost Public

    GitHub's Online Schema-migration Tool for MySQL

    Go 12.6k 1.3k

  5. covid-19-repo-data Public archive

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

    528 184

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  • dependency-submission-toolkit Public

    A TypeScript library for creating dependency snapshots.

    TypeScript 47 MIT 13 4 7 Updated Mar 24, 2025
  • advisory-database Public

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

    1,837 CC-BY-4.0 378 60 2 Updated Mar 24, 2025
  • docs Public

    The open-source repo for docs.github.com

    TypeScript 17,146 CC-BY-4.0 61,247 32 (13 issues need help) 8 Updated Mar 24, 2025
  • codeql-coding-standards Public

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

    CodeQL 144 MIT 61 95 11 Updated Mar 24, 2025
  • codeql-action Public

    Actions for running CodeQL analysis

    TypeScript 1,231 MIT 354 129 (2 issues need help) 5 Updated Mar 24, 2025
  • curated-data Public Forked from clearlydefined/curated-data

    Contains curations submitted by the community

    JavaScript 14 CC0-1.0 93 0 0 Updated Mar 24, 2025
  • twirp-rs Public

    Twirp RPC for Rust

    Rust 36 MIT 5 3 2 Updated Mar 24, 2025
  • dmca Public

    Repository with text of DMCA takedown notices as received. GitHub does not endorse or adopt any assertion contained in the following notices. Users identified in the notices are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Additional information about our DMCA policy can be found at

    DIGITAL Command Language 5,665 1,305 0 8 Updated Mar 24, 2025
  • emergency-pull-request-probot-app Public

    Bypass approval and checks in order to merge an emergency change to the main branch with audit controls.

    JavaScript 48 MIT 4 0 0 Updated Mar 24, 2025
  • copilot.vim Public

    Neovim plugin for GitHub Copilot

    Vim Script 9,571 409 0 0 Updated Mar 24, 2025