GitHub is the platform for open source software development. Millions of projects use it (cf. GitHut). Its success comes from its great collaboration workflow, which allows developers, documenters and users to build something together. GitHub enables the idea of social coding, a software that is developed effectively by a distributed virtual community.

GitHub provides extensive high quality online documentation: https://help.github.com/. Thus, we give you a brief overview and describe our opinion of why GitHub simply "works". We also link to the relevant contents of the excellent GitHub Bootcamp.