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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 7.6k 452

  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 14.5k 950

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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
    1,879 CC-BY-4.0 423 63 4 Updated May 28, 2025
  • docs Public

    The open-source repo for docs.github.com

    github/docs’s past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 17,390 CC-BY-4.0 61,921 35 (9 issues need help) 20 Updated May 28, 2025
  • github-mcp-server Public

    GitHub's official MCP Server

    github/github-mcp-server’s past year of commit activity
    Go 14,539 MIT 950 80 (1 issue needs help) 28 Updated May 28, 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

    github/dmca’s past year of commit activity
    DIGITAL Command Language 5,737 1,311 0 10 Updated May 28, 2025
  • spark-template Public template
    github/spark-template’s past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 1 MIT 0 0 10 Updated May 28, 2025
  • curated-data Public Forked from clearlydefined/curated-data

    Contains curations submitted by the community

    github/curated-data’s past year of commit activity
    JavaScript 16 CC0-1.0 98 0 0 Updated May 28, 2025
  • copilot-language-server-release Public

    Feedback for the GitHub Copilot Language Server

    github/copilot-language-server-release’s past year of commit activity
    83 MIT 4 7 0 Updated May 28, 2025
  • rest-api-description Public

    An OpenAPI description for GitHub's REST API

    github/rest-api-description’s past year of commit activity
    1,490 MIT 263 181 4 Updated May 28, 2025
  • codeql Public

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

    github/codeql’s past year of commit activity
    CodeQL 8,346 MIT 1,691 844 (4 issues need help) 373 Updated May 28, 2025
  • forgoodfirstissue Public

    Find your first issue for good to contribute to

    github/forgoodfirstissue’s past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 139 MIT 65 0 0 Updated May 28, 2025