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GitHub reaches 3.5 million users and 6 million repositories. [1] 31 May: Product: GitHub announces the release of Octokit, a set of client libraries for working with the GitHub API. [75] 15 July: Product: GitHub launches the ChooseALicense.com website to help users choose a free and open-source software license. [76] [77] 15 July: Product
GitHub (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ t h ʌ b /) is a proprietary developer platform that allows developers to create, store, manage, and share their code. It uses Git to provide distributed version control and GitHub itself provides access control, bug tracking, software feature requests, task management, continuous integration, and wikis for every project. [8]
He is best known as the founder and former CEO of GitHub, a Git repository web-based hosting service, which he co-founded in 2008 with Chris Wanstrath and P. J. Hyett. [3] He resigned from GitHub in 2014 when an internal investigation concluded that he and his wife harassed an employee. [ 4 ]
In 2008, Wanstrath co-founded GitHub and the service had 100,000 users by July 2009. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] It was named to CNBC's Disruptor List five times between 2008 and 2018. [ 11 ] While at GitHub he created the Electron software framework. [ 13 ]
GitHub: GitHub, Inc. (A subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation) 2008-04 No Yes Unknown Denies service to Crimea, North Korea, Sudan, Syria [9] List of government takedown requests. GitLab: GitLab Inc. 2011-09 [10] Partial [11] Yes [12] GitLab FOSS – free software GitLab Enterprise Edition (EE) – proprietary
Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist pwɛ̃ dy sɑbl]; also spelled Point de Sable, Point au Sable, Point Sable, Pointe DuSable, or Pointe du Sable; [n 1] before 1750 [n 2] – August 28, 1818) is regarded as the first permanent non-Native settler of what would later become Chicago, Illinois, and is recognized as the city's founder. [7]
The Mayors: The Chicago Political Tradition (1995); essays by scholars covering important mayors before 1980; Green, Paul M., and Melvin G. Holli. Chicago, World War II (2003) excerpt and text search; short and heavily illustrated; Gustaitis, Joseph. Chicago's Greatest Year, 1893: The White City and the Birth of a Modern Metropolis (2013) online
In the late 1980s, Roy Singham founded Singham Business Services as a management consulting company servicing the equipment leasing industry in a Chicago basement. According to Singham, after two-to-three years, Singham started recruiting additional staff and came up with the name Thoughtworks in 1990. [ 9 ]