Awesome GitHub

A curated list of GitHub's awesomeness

Think GitHub is awesome? Contribute something to this list! It's easy, just have a look at the contribution guidelines.The awesomeness is currently organized into just a few different buckets:

Infomation for people who are new to GitHub

Resources for those already familiar with GitHub

Tips, tricks, tools, and add-ons for GitHub power users

Novel uses of GitHub

What is the Awesome GitHub list? It's a collection of things that make GitHub one of the most amazing co-creation platforms in the world.It is specifically focused on GitHub, and not on Git. Git is indeed awesome. And there would be no GitHub without Git. And yet, GitHub has become much more than a home to much of humanity's open-source code; it has become one of the world's most vivid examples of the power of mass collaboration.All that to say, this list -- Awesome GitHub -- is an attempt to document that aspect of what is awesome: everything that GitHub has become -- far beyond what Git is today, and beyond where GitHub started just eight years ago.The inspiration for this list came from a session proposal for the 2015 Mozilla Festival. I later learned, serendiptiously, that the Mozilla Festival itself was using GitHub issues to manage the program -- reviewing proposals, assign sessions to tracks and themes, and much more. Just one more example of how GitHub is being used to make awesome.Infomation for people who are new to GitHub

Code School's Try Git - If you'd like to better understand Git, one of the technologys that makes GitHub possible, this is a great place to start. No GitHub account required.

Git-it -- :computer: :mortar_board: A workshopper for learning Git and GitHub.

On-Demand GitHub Training - Self-paced, interactive projects created and maintained by GitHub's own Training team.

Bingo Board -- Play bingo :boom: by sending pull requests!

Writing on GitHub - GitHub's own guide to using GitHub for more than just software development.

GitHubGuides - GitHub Training & Guides on YouTube.

GitHub Pages - Websites for you and your projects. Hosted directly from your GitHub repository. Just edit, push, and your changes are live.

Filetypes that GitHub can do magic with:

GeoJSON/TopoJSON - Instantly render maps when you add a GeoJSON file to a repository.

iPython/Jupyter - Yes, that's right, GitHub also renders ipynb files right in the browser. The possibilities are endless.

PDF - View PDFs right in your browser.

STL files - It's pretty amazing, 3D right in the browser.

CSV - Data journalists and civic data nerds rejoice, comma separated values right in the browser!

SVG - Not only can you view scalable vector graphics in the browser, but you can see the difference between versions visually! You've got to see it to believe it. (In fact, you can do this with most image files.)

PSD - That's right, same idea as SVG, but for Photoshop files!

GitHub Government Community - Information on joining GitHub's government community — a collaborative community for sharing best practices in furtherance of open source, open data, and open government efforts.

Classroom for GitHub - Your course assignments on GitHub.

MOOC in Spanish - Introductory course (MOOC) in Spanish from Madrid Polytechnical University

Awesome GitHub

A curated list of GitHub's awesomeness

Think GitHub is awesome? Contribute something to this list! It's easy, just have a look at the contribution guidelines.

The awesomeness is currently organized into just a few different buckets:

Infomation for people who are new to GitHub
Resources for those already familiar with GitHub
Tips, tricks, tools, and add-ons for GitHub power users
Novel uses of GitHub

What is the Awesome GitHub list? It's a collection of things that make GitHub one of the most amazing co-creation platforms in the world.

It is specifically focused on GitHub, and not on Git. Git is indeed awesome. And there would be no GitHub without Git. And yet, GitHub has become much more than a home to much of humanity's open-source code; it has become one of the world's most vivid examples of the power of mass collaboration.

All that to say, this list -- Awesome GitHub -- is an attempt to document that aspect of what is awesome: everything that GitHub has become -- far beyond what Git is today, and beyond where GitHub started just eight years ago.

The inspiration for this list came from a session proposal for the 2015 Mozilla Festival. I later learned, serendiptiously, that the Mozilla Festival itself was using GitHub issues to manage the program -- reviewing proposals, assign sessions to tracks and themes, and much more. Just one more example of how GitHub is being used to make awesome.

Infomation for people who are new to GitHub

Code School's Try Git - If you'd like to better understand Git, one of the technologys that makes GitHub possible, this is a great place to start. No GitHub account required.
Git-it -- :computer: :mortar_board: A workshopper for learning Git and GitHub.
On-Demand GitHub Training - Self-paced, interactive projects created and maintained by GitHub's own Training team.
Bingo Board -- Play bingo :boom: by sending pull requests!
Writing on GitHub - GitHub's own guide to using GitHub for more than just software development.
GitHubGuides - GitHub Training & Guides on YouTube.
GitHub Pages - Websites for you and your projects. Hosted directly from your GitHub repository. Just edit, push, and your changes are live.
Filetypes that GitHub can do magic with:
GeoJSON/TopoJSON - Instantly render maps when you add a GeoJSON file to a repository.
iPython/Jupyter - Yes, that's right, GitHub also renders ipynb files right in the browser. The possibilities are endless.
PDF - View PDFs right in your browser.
STL files - It's pretty amazing, 3D right in the browser.
CSV - Data journalists and civic data nerds rejoice, comma separated values right in the browser!
SVG - Not only can you view scalable vector graphics in the browser, but you can see the difference between versions visually! You've got to see it to believe it. (In fact, you can do this with most image files.)
PSD - That's right, same idea as SVG, but for Photoshop files!
GitHub Government Community - Information on joining GitHub's government community — a collaborative community for sharing best practices in furtherance of open source, open data, and open government efforts.
Classroom for GitHub - Your course assignments on GitHub.
MOOC in Spanish - Introductory course (MOOC) in Spanish from Madrid Polytechnical University