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"There are plenty of open source projects that people generally don’t consider open source because they’re not building a community or making a lot of updates, but open source isn’t just about contributions.” writes about contributor relations.
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🎙️ How are you building a sustainable open source community? Listen to a special #MaintainerMonth episode of Sustain where we talk about contributor ladders, mentorship, and the importance of balancing code with community.
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Global Accessibility Awareness Day less than a week away! How are you planning to get involved? Check out accessibility.day to find resources and information to help you address the barriers that may be blocking disabled users in your project.
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Open vs. control: the paradox of open source. founder takes a look at the expectations of open source, how the definition has evolved, and when ‘closed to contributions’ is the right move. Tune in to The ReadME Podcast for more.
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We’re celebrating Maintainer Month with a spotlight on the Maintainers behind some of your favorite projects! Meet our featured maintainer this week.
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We developed an accessibility strategy to address the hundreds of color contrast issues that were present in our Design System. takes us behind the scenes on this process to make more inclusive.
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Here's a behind the scenes writeup on how my team and I iterated on our complex color system using experimentation and automation, to bring greater #accessibility to @GitHub's Primer design system: github.blog/2023-05-11-unl
An example of new colors on GitHub with Primer. There are demonstrations of color contrast improvements in a few sections: default text with accessible hyperlinks, secondary text with additional content and an underline hyperlink, and a hyperlink with icon. There is also a subtle green change in the “comment” button with the text that says “solving hundreds of accessibility issues.
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Actions are coming to your Repositories on GitHub mobile! Find all of your repository's workflows in one convenient place 📱 ⬇️ Download for iOS and Android: github.com/mobile
There are two phones, each with the GitHub mobile app open. The text on the image reads "GitHub Mobile. Introducing Actions. One tap to your repo's workflows."
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Silos block collaboration and innovation in organizations 😭. But open source communities work... Asynchronously 🛠️ Openly 🔓 Remotely 💻 At global-scale 🌎 What if your internal engineering teams could reuse those same practices? 🤔
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💪 Luckily, the rapid release of new functionality and tooling is de rigueur in the automation industry, which means powerful options abound.
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💡We can reclaim lost hours and accomplish a few more things on our to-do list through the automation of mundane tasks—but we’re not talking about large-scale, enterprise-grade projects.
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LGTM. Ship it! Works on my computer 👍 What's your go-to phrase for approving pull requests?
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Get a bird's eye view of your application security stack with code scanning's tool status page so you can quickly confirm everything is working and troubleshoot any security tool in your toolbox 🛠️.
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