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Please reload this page . github / .github Public * Notifications You must be signed in to change notification settings * Fork 3.8k * Star 1.2k * Code * Pull requests 13 * Actions * Security and quality 0 * Insights Additional navigation options * Code * Pull requests * Actions * Security and quality * Insights Files Expand file tree main Breadcrumbs * .github * / profile / README.md Copy path Blame More file actions Blame More file actions Latest commit   History History History 53 lines (38 loc) · 3.54 KB main Breadcrumbs * .github * / profile / README.md Copy path Top File metadata and controls * Preview * Code * Blame 53 lines (38 loc) · 3.54 KB Raw Copy raw file Download raw file Outline Edit and raw actions 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 . 🤯 But that's just us. We are proud to be part of the work of millions of developers, companies and robots across the solar system. 🪐 Yes, Robots ! 🍿 An interconnected community 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? Okay, you rock! 🎸 If not, we can help you get started! Open source software is made by people just like you. Learn more about how to contribute . 🦦 Contributing to the ecosystem We contribute to the tools 🔧 we rely on to build and run GitHub, while 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 👓 Appendix See what's next on our public roadmap ✨ and let us know if you have any suggestions. 🙇‍♂️ Oh, and by the way, we are always hiring talented, passionate people to join our team . 🙌 "Tell me more, I can't get enough!" * GitHub is built using mighty 🔨 open source technologies like Ruby on Rails , Go , Primer , React and Kafka among others. * The three open source projects GitHub members have most contributed 👩‍💻 to are: * Visual Studio Code * Ruby on Rails * Homebrew * By the way, our documentation 🤓 is also open sourced. 🤫 Psst! 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