Meet the people building the software you love.
The ReadME Project amplifies the voices of the developer community:
the maintainers, leaders, and teams whose contributions move the world forward every day. Learn more
Feature Story
Open Source on Mars: Community powers NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter
Developers around the world contribute to historic flight.
Feature Story
How Python is building a welcoming community for women
The Python community is setting an example other open source communities can follow.
Lorena Mesa // pyladies
Building a globally diverse, welcoming Python community
Lorena finds the sweet spot between Python, politics, community governance and open source.
Stories by topic
Community Stories
Meet the maintainers and developers whose contributions move the open source world forward every day.
Segun Adebayo
Project
Chakra UI
Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Salah Al-Dhaferi
Project
ReCoded-Org
Location
Sanaa, Yemen
Tanner Linsley
Project
chartjs
Location
Utah
Jory Burson
Project
jquery
Location
Boston, MA
Feature Articles
Stories showcasing the projects and people building on GitHub to solve the world’s most intractable problems.
Feature Story
Creating opportunity for women in development
Now is the time to remake the workplace.
Feature Story
How the open source community came together to fight COVID-19
As the pandemic raged, open source developers sprang into action to leverage data for the greater good.
Community Contributions
Expert developers and teams share best practices in software engineering, collaboration, and culture.
About The ReadME Project
Coding is usually seen as a solitary activity, but it’s actually the world’s largest community effort led by open source maintainers, contributors, and teams. These unsung heroes put in long hours to build software, fix issues, field questions, and manage communities.
The ReadME Project is part of GitHub’s ongoing effort to amplify the voices of the developer community. It’s an evolving space to engage with the community and explore the stories, challenges, technology, and culture that surround the world of open source.
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