Yeswe are building GitHub on GitHub. In factwe’ve been doing this since October 19th2007. That's when we made our first commit. Since then we pushed over 2.5 million commitsopened over 1 million issuessubmitted 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 developerscompanies and robots across the solar system. 🪐 YesRobots!

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? Okayyou rock! 🎸 If notwe can help you get started! Open source software is made by people just like you. Learn more about how to contribute.

We contribute to the tools 🔧 we rely on to build and run GitHubwhile also maintaining 🧙‍♂️ our own open source projects like:

• GitHub CLI - A command line tool for GitHub
• GitHub Desktop - A visual approach to using Git with GitHub
• Git Large File Storage - A Git extension for versioning large files
• Primer - The GitHub design system

See what's next on our public roadmap ✨ and let us know if you have any suggestions. 🙇‍♂️ Ohand by the waywe are always hiring talentedpassionate people to join our team. 🙌

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