Why GitHub ?

Simple, because its THE GitHub! It is the universal repository for most open source project. Not just any open source project, projects from the big tech such as Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Mozilla and the likes are all over GitHub. Microsoft abandoned its Codeplex service and acquired GitHub for a whoooping $7.5B. Its a haven for programmers and collaborators. Its the Facebook for codes!

What can we do on GitHub?

Primarily, GitHub is an online repository of codes. But thats the old GitHub, it has grown over the years adding services and integrating to a lot of third party tools in the market. From analytics, error reporting, project management, continuous integration, continuous delivery, devops operation and to vast list of geek magics. Its a virtual swiss knife for an individual ninja, a promising startup or a gigantic enterprise .

The online repository opens to a lot of possibilities. It provides a gateway to interface to a lot of online services. The dark ages of keeping your source code in a drive is gone, so is the concept of keeping the code for your self. As long as it does not violate laws, company policies and doesn’t expose private details, going open source is a way to grow and improve your idea. GitHub provide that avenue, supporting both private at public repositories.

GitHub is just not about codes! You can host a blog, a document, a tutorial, a static web page , a gist (code snippets) for free!

Repository. Collaboration. Integration. Ideas. Innovation.

Opportunities

Showcase your projects and let any developer accross continents, time lines and ethnicity critique, review and provide suggestions and improvements.

Get a chance to try vast list of tools that GitHub support for task related (but not limited) to, project manageent, CD/CI, analytics, and error logging.

Warning

Like any thing that is made available online, it is open to exploitation. Be careful so that company policies are not violated and private data are not compromised.