Build software better, together (2024)

FAQs

Do governments use GitHub? ›

Agencies use GitHub to engage developers and collaborate with the public on open source, open data and open government efforts.

GitHub users create accounts, upload files, and create coding projects.

This is the github repository for all NSA and CIA spying servers, including those revealed by Edward Snowden and other studies we conducted on the whole world's servers, enumerating those that spy on individuals and sell data to the NSA and CIA.

On June 4, 2018, Microsoft announced its intent to acquire GitHub for US$7.5 billion (~$8.96 billion in 2023). The deal closed on October 26, 2018. GitHub continued to operate independently as a community, platform and business.

Learning software development on your own can seem like a daunting task, but with the right strategies, it is achievable for many aspiring developers. The key is to set realistic goals, choose suitable projects to build your skills, and effectively manage your time.

These guidelines are applicable to all customer-facing roles in software development. In developing custom software, it is important to consider what the final product will do and how it will be used. Typically, custom software projects take 4-9 months from conception to completion of testing and release.

Anyone can come up with ideas, but a developer will be able to turn those ideas into something tangible. Even if you only want to work on the design aspects of software, you should have some familiarity with coding and be able to create basic prototypes.

How do you own a software? ›

From a legal standpoint, it is protected through various mechanisms such as copyright, patents, and intellectual property rights. These legal definitions provide individuals or companies with exclusive rights to their software, preventing others from using, copying, or distributing it without permission.

Short version: You own content you create, but you allow us certain rights to it, so that we can display and share the content you post.

Developers normally prefer git as it requires commands to enter and work is done. For a beginner, I suggest go for GitHub to understand how it works, looks and what are different features there like pull compare, commit with description, fork etc., We get more clarity when we have a visual available.

While Git is a tool that's used to manage multiple versions of source code edits that are then transferred to files in a Git repository, GitHub serves as a location for uploading copies of a Git repository. In a sense, then, there's no comparison when it comes to Git vs. GitHub as far as their function.

Indeed, many government organizations already have accounts, but it can be a challenge to find out if yours is one of them. A partial list is here: https://government.github.com/community/ ; for US military and intelligence you can jump directly to https://government.github.com/community/#us-military-and-intelligence .

NASA uses multiple public, open source development repositories at SourceForge and GitHub to host NASA open source software releases. Visit NASA's Open Source Code Catalog at code.NASA.gov.

GitHub organizations are commonly used by businesses, open source projects, and other groups that need to collaborate on multiple projects. However, you can also use an organization for personal projects if you want to have more control over access and management.

Yes, Github is widely used by coders in China, especially the Github's original focus user groups, i.e. Ruby/Rails coders. GitCafe is one of the closest Github copies in China.