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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 4.5k 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 3.8k 1.4k

  3. scientist scientist Public

    🔬 A Ruby library for carefully refactoring critical paths.

    Ruby 7.5k 450

  4. gh-ost gh-ost Public

    GitHub's Online Schema-migration Tool for MySQL

    Go 12.7k 1.3k

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

    GitHub's official MCP Server

    Go 12.4k 687

Repositories

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  • 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
    1,857 CC-BY-4.0 396 63 8 Updated Apr 26, 2025
  • forgoodfirstissue Public

    Find your first issue for good to contribute to

    github/forgoodfirstissue’s past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 131 MIT 59 6 10 Updated Apr 26, 2025
  • go-spdx Public

    Golang implementation of a checker for determining if an SPDX ID satisfies an SPDX Expression.

    github/go-spdx’s past year of commit activity
    Go 37 MIT 9 3 2 Updated Apr 26, 2025
  • maintainermonth Public

    A month for maintainers to gather & share

    github/maintainermonth’s past year of commit activity
    JavaScript 195 MIT 41 16 (2 issues need help) 1 Updated Apr 26, 2025
  • codeql-coding-standards Public

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

    github/codeql-coding-standards’s past year of commit activity
    CodeQL 147 MIT 62 98 15 Updated Apr 25, 2025
  • opensource.guide Public

    📚 Community guides for open source creators

    github/opensource.guide’s past year of commit activity
    HTML 14,474 CC-BY-4.0 14,771 0 0 Updated Apr 25, 2025
  • codeql-action Public

    Actions for running CodeQL analysis

    github/codeql-action’s past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 1,250 MIT 355 131 (2 issues need help) 12 Updated Apr 25, 2025
  • gitignore Public

    A collection of useful .gitignore templates

    github/gitignore’s past year of commit activity
    166,019 CC0-1.0 83,076 5 483 Updated Apr 25, 2025
  • docs Public

    The open-source repo for docs.github.com

    github/docs’s past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 17,293 CC-BY-4.0 61,579 36 (14 issues need help) 14 Updated Apr 25, 2025
  • copilot-language-server-release Public

    Feedback for the GitHub Copilot Language Server

    github/copilot-language-server-release’s past year of commit activity
    68 MIT 2 6 0 Updated Apr 25, 2025