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  2016 Dodgeball Tournament: Play – Sponsor – Donate!

  We’re looking forward to seeing you at the 2016 Dodgeball Tournament for friendly competition, team bonding, the chance to take home the OctoTrophy, and best of all, the opportunity to…April 25, 2016

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  Expanded webhook events

  Webhooks are one of the more powerful ways to extend GitHub. They allow internal tools and third-party integrations to subscribe to specific activity on GitHub and receive notifications (via an…April 22, 2016

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  Preview GitHub Pages metadata locally

  A year ago, Jekyll sites on GitHub pages gained access to repository and organization metadata with the introduction of the site.github namespace. We recently moved our own site.github implementation to…April 21, 2016

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  Join us at GitHub Satellite to hear how top European companies build software

  Technology has fundamentally changed the way people work. As businesses from every industry build more software, new challenges and opportunities arise. Join us at GitHub Satellite to glimpse how developers…April 21, 2016

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  Patchwork St. Louis

  Going to be in St. Louis next week for the FIRST Robotics Competition? Or maybe you’re a St. Louis local who is curious about Git or GitHub? In either case,…April 19, 2016

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  GitHub Satellite sessions announced

  We’re pleased to welcome an excellent lineup of speakers to GitHub Satellite, the first ever international event in the GitHub Universe conference series. On May 11, 2016, 500 people will…April 15, 2016

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  Call for proposals: CodeConf LA – June 27-29, 2016

  CodeConf LA will converge June 27-29, 2016 in sunny Los Angeles for three days of unforgettable discussions. We’re searching for the best talks that the open source community has to…April 13, 2016

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  GitHub Shop: water bottles are here

  Stay hydrated while sharing your love for GitHub with the new water bottle. Available in the GitHub ShopApril 13, 2016

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  Meet Richard Davey, creator of Phaser

  To highlight the people behind projects we admire, we bring you the GitHub Developer Profile blog series. Meet Richard Davey, the game developer behind Phaser — a free open source…April 12, 2016

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  Patchwork Reading, UK

  Patchwork comes back to Europe on April 19. If you’re in the Reading, UK area, we hope you can come hang out with us at GROW@GreenPark. The event is open…April 11, 2016

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  From the OctoTales video series: advancing cancer research through open source

  There are no shortage of open source projects making an impact on our world, and we’ve been especially excited to see an increase in collaboration across the healthcare community. A…Erin Symons·April 5, 2016

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  Organizations can now block abusive users

  Community is one of the most important aspects of open source, but sometimes a few bad actors can ruin the experience for the group. To help address the problem, organization…April 4, 2016

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  Patchwork Philadelphia

  Philadelphia friends, we hope you can join us for a Patchwork on April 12 at Pipeline Philly. If you’re local or in town for Philly Emerging Tech, we’d love to…April 4, 2016

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  Supporting the student hacker community

  To stimulate the growth and show our support of the student hacker community, we’ve partnered with Major League Hacking (MLH) to provide each new member hackathon with a $1,000 grant…April 4, 2016

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  A look behind our decision to standardize on a single Markdown engine for GitHub Pages

  Two months ago, we announced that GitHub Pages is dropping support for the RDiscount, Redcarpet, and RedCloth (Textile) markup engines on May 1st. For the vast majority of users, this…Ben Balter·April 1, 2016

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