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

San Francisco, CA
Joined October 2017
We found significant errors of judgment and procedure in a recent employee separation. We have reversed the separation, and our head of HR has taken personal accountability and resigned from GitHub. We apologize sincerely to the employee. github.blog/2021-01-17-updat…
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After more than two years of work, we have secured a license from the U.S. government to offer GitHub to developers in Iran. This includes all services for individuals and organizations, private and public, free and paid. github.blog/2021-01-05-advan…
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Developers should not have to sacrifice their privacy to collaborate on GitHub. So, we have removed all non-essential cookies from GitHub.
Cookie banners are annoying, so we removed them from GitHub: github.blog/2020-12-17-no-co…
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Now's the time to explore the past, present, and future of technology and public health with WHO. It's all happening on the Developer channel in just a few minutes at #GitHubUniverse. Tune in! githubuniverse.com/developer…
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Join us at #GitHubUniverse for a discussion with maintainers of the youtube-dl project, @HRW, and @GitHubPolicy on the story behind and public benefits of the popular open source repo. githubuniverse.com/enterpris…
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