Hi, we’re Sourcegraph, the code search engine for Go and Java that lets you jump to def and find refs across all your code on GitHub. You may remember us from such developer conference liveblogs as Gophercon, FOSDEM, and dotGo. This year, we’re excited to announce we’re liveblogging GitHub Universe…

Ian Lee of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory talks about how LLNL is using, producing, and encouraging open source in government (slides here). Open source software and national security — two topics you don’t hear together too often. But there's a lot of work in government agencies being done…

Engineering leaders from Bloomberg, Walmart Labs, Line, HP, IBM, and GitHub talk about open source inside enterprise (or “inner source”). We paraphrase the key points here.1*OIAqPdJH9 SsxxfzTDu0SA “InnerSource” is a new term for something that programmers have been doing for a long time. It’s about…

A concise recap of a “fireside chat” with Bret Taylor, co-creator of Google Maps, CTO of Friend Feed, CEO and co-founder of Quip.1*v90JbRraqWznmWkkDKmLzg Q: First computer? A: Compact Portable, about the size of a suitcase. The lid flipped out of the keyboard. Had one game, which took up all disk…

The federal government has embraced open source software. Earlier this year, they released the Federal Source Code Policy. When they released it back in March, they received some of the highest number of comments in history, thanks to GitHub. They received around 2,000 public comments.1*J2Mnd…

GitHub’s invention — wasn’t invented invented in a vacuum. An evolution of great ideas from the past (like Henry Ford, Isaac Newton, etc.) GitHub didn't invent the pull request. So what was the “big idea” for GitHub? It boils down to tools and people. Our key insight was that “developers are people…