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Shaping laws, regulations, norms, and standard practices—policies—to promote the interests of developers and good social outcomes from the software revolution.

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  1. Sep 23

    The panel 🔼 was packed with insights on open source at the UN, governments, universities, and more. Watch ▶️ at

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  2. Sep 22

    Tomorrow 9am-10:30am (EST) GitHub's will be speaking at a virtual discussion on opportunities and challenges of to support the United Nations mandate. The event will be streamed, and recorded for later watching.

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  3. Sep 21

    Deadline extended to November 1. Help us drive developer-centric policy with improved metrics 👇

    Developer opportunity should be top of mind in policy. Metrics help. To that end, please share our RFP: “Defining Standardized GitHub Metrics for International Development, Public Policy and Economics Research and Indexes”
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  4. Sep 9

    In 2018, we advocated to protect open source development in the EU © Directive, including due to its economic importance. Check out this study prepared for , finding open source added between €65 and €95 billion to EU GDP in 2018. Open source policy FTW!

    We’ve been tasked by the 🇪🇺 to conduct the most comprehensive Open Source study in many years. Today, and ’s study for the is out. It’s been over a year of work. What have we found out? Strap in for a 🧵 1/
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  5. Sep 2

    TFW we explain modern software development to judges using XKCD

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  6. Aug 31

    Blog post from about our RFP to help define standardized GitHub metrics for international development, public policy, and economics

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  7. Aug 31

    The developer ecosystem needs copyright claims to be specific and actionable. We told Federal Circuit why in in SAS v. WPL.

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  8. Aug 25

    Check out our latest transparency report for the first half of 2021. It’s a by-the-numbers look at how GitHub handles requests for user info and content removal, including trade controls and other appeals

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  9. Aug 16

    Developer opportunity should be top of mind in policy. Metrics help. To that end, please share our RFP: “Defining Standardized GitHub Metrics for International Development, Public Policy and Economics Research and Indexes”

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  10. Jul 27

    Developers should have help defending their rights under copyright law. That’s why we’re partnering with to provide free legal advice for developers confronted with DMCA 1201 takedowns.

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  11. Jul 22

    Governing your software project as it scales can be hard. We’ve open sourced a tool to help.

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  12. Jul 14

    Join our for a virtual panel this Friday at 9AM PT with on the policy challenges of scaling abroad. She’ll share how GitHub navigates platform regulations around the world to protect developers

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  13. Jun 18

    The Optional Practical Training program is an important pipeline for international students, including developers, to begin careers in the US. is proud to join 55+ other companies, trade associations, and organizations in defending it in court:

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  14. Jun 16

    GitHub stands with immigrants and is proud to support the / HR3648 that would eliminate country caps on employment-based green cards. We’re stronger when we can welcome developers no matter where they’re from.

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  15. Jun 9

    Attending this week? On Friday, we'll dive into the benefits and challenges of copyright law for human rights in a session cohosted by & . Join our own , along with , , & Gabi Ivens

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  16. Jun 8

    Are you attending this week? On Friday, join our own to explore the impacts of trade restrictions on global collaboration and the open internet--and ways to mitigate them, along with , &

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  17. Jun 4

    Thank you to the community, maintainers, researchers, developers, and policy experts who shared feedback with us on this effort.
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  18. Jun 4

    Security research and collaboration are welcomed and encouraged on GitHub, and we’ve updated our policies on malware and exploits to make that more clear. Thanks to the community for the helpful feedback throughout this process!

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  19. Jun 2

    We’re committed to shaping public policies that support developers around the globe, and we want to hear from you! Help inform the world’s understanding of developers and our policy advocacy by filling out ’s State of the Octoverse survey:

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  20. May 20

    Another iteration can be found here: . Thanks to the community members, project maintainers, and developers who have shared feedback with us in the PR and have reached out for live discussions on this topic. The feedback is tremendously valuable.
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