Open Source

The 2019 theme for Game Off, our annual month-long game jam and hackathon for building games is LEAPS AND BOUNDS. Join now!

Make a pillow fort and grab some candy (and a friend) before you play and hack your way through 13 of the spookiest game jam games.

Join us for Game Off on November 1, where you can create your own game, learn a new technology, and even collaborate on something over the weekends with friends.

We take a look at the top 10 games as voted on by the community in the 8th annual JS13K competition.

Take a look at some of the new features in the latest Git release.

Apply for a maintainer scholarship—and join us at GitHub Universe 2019 in San Francisco, November 13-14.

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.

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.

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.

A look at some of the new features in the latest Git release.

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.

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.

We’re sharing new and exciting releases from world-changing technologies to weekend side projects in the April 2019 edition of Release Radar.

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.

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.