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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. Apr 8

    Tomorrow the full U.S. House of Representatives will vote on the Act to restore . We're happy to sign tech letter in support and again you can watch the proceedings live and contact your Rep at

    Tomorrow will discuss & vote on the Act to restore . Watch live at
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    Mar 28

    I'm proud of GitHub's work to represent developers and protect open source from unintended consequences in the important copyright policy discussions in the EU.

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  3. Mar 25

    Tomorrow will discuss & vote on the Act to restore . Watch live at

    is crucial to keeping opportunity open for all developers to create, collaborate on, and ship great software. Tell your legislators how the Act is important to you!
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    Mar 25

    Inside GitHub’s fight to protect devs from EU’s disastrous Copyright Reform

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  5. Mar 21

    Check for the latest news. Send a message 🙅🏽‍♂️🙋🏽‍♀️to your MEPs and government and let them know developers are creators and must be listened to for © reform to work!

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  6. Mar 21

    EU Parliament final vote next week! TL;DR software development itself carved out, © reform needed esp for , but and problematic for what developers build, and for the internet broadly. Our analysis holds

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    Mar 20

    Code connects us. Explore how collaboration can shape your community and company at this year’s GitHub Satellite. Get your early bird tickets while they’re still around.

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  8. Mar 20

    More on developer collaboration, free assembly and association (and other ), and a link to our contribution for report to the in cc

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  9. Mar 20

    For us, developer collaboration 👩🏽‍💻👨🏽‍💻 exemplifies free assembly and association online. Read our contribution for a report will present to the .

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    Mar 13

    📣 New! California state government issues open data policy! 🎉 cc:

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  11. Mar 6

    Our friends at have updated to make it easy for you to contact Congress about the Act. You can also easily see what code they changed, i.e., the diff on GitHub:

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  12. Mar 6

    is crucial to keeping opportunity open for all developers to create, collaborate on, and ship great software. Tell your legislators how the Act is important to you!

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  13. Feb 28

    GitHub is proud to file an amicus brief to with and over 30 companies. Diversity and inclusion are essential to our businesses—and to creating innovation and opportunity for all current and future software developers:

    . filed a brief on behalf of 30+ major U.S. companies in a pivotal case for transgender students. Policies that target trans students for discrimination pose a serious risk to these businesses’ employees, their family members and their customers.
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    Feb 19

    They're now among the strongest in the industry for protecting researchers against , , terms violations, and other laws that can criminalize beneficial security testing.

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    Feb 19

    I'm extremely excited to announce a major overhaul of GitHub's bug bounty safe harbor terms:

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  16. Feb 15

    Cybersecurity on how strong encryption protects the privacy and data security of developers and their users and customers, while also promoting free expression and the free flow of information around the world

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  17. Feb 13

    EU directive goes to a final vote in March/April. Developers helped keep open source out of scope and can continue to shape the outcome by explaining to Council and MEPs what issues remain for the broader internet in and .

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  18. Feb 5

    Fantastic opportunity at in line with our 5th tech policy prediction for 2019: "2018 revealed the need for developers to have a seat at the table...will be a corresponding increase in opportunity for policy-minded technologists"

    We’re excited to announce that the Aspen Tech Policy Hub Fellowship is open for applications! Our inaugural incubator class is open to technology experts with an interest in policy (stipend provided). Apply by 2/27: /1
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    Jan 31

    We join and in urging the Indian Minister of Electronics and Information Technology to reconsider problematic changes to intermediary liability rules that would harm Indian internet users' access to knowledge and the digital economy.

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    Jan 25

    Google asks Supreme Court to overrule disastrous ruling on API copyrights by

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