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.

Gaming

Game Bytes · February 2024

Game Bytes is our monthly series taking a peek at the world of gamedev on GitHub—featuring game engine updates, game jam details, open source games, mods, maps, and more. Game on! 🕹️

Open Source

Meet Kayla: A college student and open source ambassador

From learner to mentor, Kayla, an All In for Students ambassador, has become an open source leader on her campus.

Git

Highlights from Git 2.44

The first Git release of 2024 is here! Take a look at some of our highlights on what’s new in Git 2.44.

Open Source

Release Radar · January 2024 Edition

Get excited for this month’s Release Radar. Maintainers were hard at work this past month, shipping major updates for you all. Read on for our top staff picks.

Open Source

A guide to open source for the social sector

Calling all nonprofits! Do you want to implement open source software but don’t know where to start? We’ve got good news; you can easily get started by consulting our new guide.

Gaming

Game Bytes · January 2024

Game Bytes is our monthly series taking a peek at the world of gamedev on GitHub—featuring game engine updates, game jam details, open source games, mods, maps, and more. Game on!

Gaming

Game Off 2023 results 🏆

The GitHub Game Off results are in! All games have been rated, ranked, and reviewed. Read on for a look at the 10 highest-rated submissions overall.

Open Source

Release Radar · End of 2023 Edition

Hacktoberfest has wrapped up, GitHub Universe has come to a close, and our community has been super hard at work. All the while people enjoyed turkey over Thanksgiving in the…

Screenshot of For Good First Issue website

Open Source

For Good First Issue: Introducing a new way to contribute

For Good First Issue is a curated list of open source projects that are also digital public goods and need the help of developers.

Git

Highlights from Git 2.43

The last Git release of 2023 is here! Take a look at some of our highlights on what’s new in Git 2.43.

Gaming

GitHub Game Off 2023 theme announcement

It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for. Are you ready?

Open Source

Release Radar · Hacktoberfest 2023 Edition

As Hacktoberfest comes to a close, you still have a day or so left to complete and submit your pull requests. If you’re struggling to think of projects to contribute…

Gaming

Hackable Halloween games MMXXIII

13 spooktacular games plus source code for readers to jam on.

Maintainers

How to gain insight into your project contributors

We’re excited to share with you the contributors Action! At GitHub, we maintain several open source repositories and have developed this Action to empower maintainers to measure how many new and returning contributors and contributions have occurred over any given time period.

Gaming

js13kGames 2023 winners 🏆

The twelfth annual js13kGames coding competition, challenging participants to create games in 13kB or less of JavaScript in a month, just wrapped up. This post highlights the top thirteen entries.