Open Source
The vast majority of businesses today rely on open source, making it an essential part of the software industry. And millions of those projects are on GitHub. Learn about documentation, maintainers, gaming Git, licenses, and how open source positively impacts the world. You can also find information in our documentation about how to build and foster sustainable open source communities.
GitHub Maintainer Scholarships are now available for GitHub Universe
Apply for a maintainer scholarship—and join us at GitHub Universe 2019 in San Francisco, November 13-14.
Maintainer spotlight: Chrissy LeMaire
We’re sharing interviews from several open source contributors about their projects, challenges, and what a GitHub sponsorship means to them. This week, hear from Chrissy LeMaire.
Maintainer spotlight: Daniel Stenberg
We’re sharing interviews from several open source contributors about their projects, challenges, and what a GitHub sponsorship means to them. This week, hear from Daniel Stenberg.
FAQ with the GitHub Sponsors team
Hello, this is Devon from the GitHub Sponsors Team! It’s been incredibly motivating for us to see the outpouring of enthusiasm for the launch and to hear your ideas for where you’d like to see it go from here. We’re just getting started, and your input is important to keep us going in the right direction.
Maintainer spotlight: Sage Griffin
We’re sharing interviews from several open source contributors about their projects, challenges, and what a GitHub sponsorship means to them. This week, read about Siân Griffin.
Maintainer spotlight: Mariatta Wijaya
We’re sharing interviews from several open source contributors about their projects, challenges, and what a GitHub sponsorship means to them. This week, read about Mariatta Wijaya.
Release Radar · April 2019
We’re sharing new and exciting releases from world-changing technologies to weekend side projects in the April 2019 edition of Release Radar.
XPRIZE awards $15M for open source, scalable education software
The XPRIZE Foundation challenged teams to develop open source software to help children learn basic reading, writing, and arithmetic—learn more about the challenge and who won.
Git ransom campaign incident report—Atlassian Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab
Today, Atlassian Bitbucket, GitHub, and GitLab are issuing a joint blog post in a coordinated effort to help educate and inform users of the three platforms on secure best practices relating to the recent Git ransomware incident. Though there is no evidence Atlassian Bitbucket, GitHub, or GitLab products were compromised in any way, we believe it’s important to help the software development community better understand and collectively take steps to protect against this threat.
Game On—what was it like to make games during the 80s?
Join us for a chat with Kevin Savetz and Steve Meretzky about developing video games for Infocom in the 1980s.
Release Radar · March 2019
We’re sharing new and exciting releases from world-changing technologies to weekend side projects in the March 2019 edition of Release Radar.
Release Radar · February 2019
We’re sharing new and exciting releases from world-changing technologies to weekend side projects in the February 2019 edition of Release Radar.
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The GitHub Podcast
Catch up on the GitHub podcast, a show dedicated to the topics, trends, stories and culture in and around the open source developer community on GitHub.