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  Join us at GitHub HQ to celebrate SF Pride

  We’re pleased to announce that we will be hosting a meetup at GitHub HQ to celebrate LGBT advocates in tech on Thursday June 26, during SF Pride Week. We hope…June 20, 2014

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  Octicons for everyone!

  Two years ago we started using Octicons—our icon font—on GitHub. We use them in many of our sites and include them in Atom. Now we are making them available for…June 16, 2014

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  Gist Design Update

  Today, we’re shipping a design update to Gist to give it that same look and feel you’re used to on GitHub.com. Updates include: Redesigned conversations Redesigned revisions view Redesigned user…June 16, 2014

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  GitHub Meetup in Portsmouth (UK)

  GitHub is coming to Portsmouth (UK)! Come join @arfon at The White Swan on Tuesday, June 24th at 7:00pm and enjoy some of the finest cask ales, draught beers and…June 16, 2014

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  London Meetup, 19th June

  A good number of Hubbers are descending on 🇬🇧 London for Enterprise Apps World and Patchwork. So we thought it would be the perfect time for a GitHub Meetup. Join…June 11, 2014

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  Locking Conversations

  Starting today, you can lock the conversation on an issue or a pull request. If you’re a collaborator on a repository, click the lock in the sidebar of an issue…June 9, 2014

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  Say hello to GitHub for Windows 2.0

  Two years ago we launched GitHub for Windows as the easiest way to use Git and GitHub on Windows. Today we’re shipping a major update that helps you focus more…June 9, 2014

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  Patchwork Night UK Edition

  We’re happy to announce a new Patchwork hack night at the beautiful ustwo studio in London. Learning open source, together Patchwork is a hands-on workshop for learning Git and GitHub.…June 9, 2014

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  PSD Viewing & Diffing

  We’ve supported image viewing and diffing for quite some time now, but today we’re happy to announce that we’re adding PSD files to the images we support for this. Any…June 5, 2014

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  Diversity and Feedback at GitHub

  Back in April I said we would share the new initiatives we’re launching to ensure GitHub is a welcoming and inclusive company. This work is long term and will remain…Chris Wanstrath·May 31, 2014

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  GitHub Kaigi! See you in Japan!

  A GitHub user group in Tokyo is organizing an event, GitHub Kaigi on June 1st, and a number of GitHubbers (@cobyism, @devinreams, @dice, @dsorkin, @jordanmccullough, @kansaichris, @nathansobo) will be in…May 23, 2014

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  Nested task lists

  The most organized people know that finishing a task rarely involves just one step. That’s why we’re excited to announce nested task lists! For example: – [ ] Figure out…May 14, 2014

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  Improving GitHub for science

  GitHub is being used today to build scientific software that’s helping find Earth-like planets in other solar systems, analyze DNA, and build open source rockets. Seeing these projects and all…Arfon Smith·May 14, 2014

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  Sofia Meetup, May 30th

  Come share some 🍻 and ☕ on GitHub, Friday May 30th at 19:00! @danishkhan and @joewadcan will be at Halbite 3 to hang out with our local GitHub users in…May 13, 2014

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  Helsinki Meetup

  Come enjoy snacks and drinks this Wednesday, May 14th at Faro! I’ll be in town speaking at HelsinkiJS and then looking forward to meeting the lovely GitHub users in Helsinki…May 13, 2014

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