Hey, this is us 👋
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
🍿 An interconnected community
The open source community is the
- 🌍
- 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
🦦 Contributing to the ecosystem
We contribute to the tools
- GitHub CLI - A command line tool for GitHub
- Git Large File Storage - A git extension for versioning large files
- Primer - The GitHub design system
👓 Appendix
See what's next on our 🙇♂️. Oh, and by the way, we are always hiring talented, passionate people to 🙌.
"Tell me more, I can't get enough!"
- GitHub is built using mighty
Primer, Kafka among others. - The three open source projects GitHub members have most contributed
👩💻 to are: - By the way, our 🤓 is also open sourced
