What is the Awesome GitHub list? It's a collection of things that make GitHub one of the most amazing co-creation platforms in the world.
It is specifically focused on GitHub, and not on Git. Git is indeed awesome. And there would be no GitHub without Git. And yet, GitHub has become much more than a home to much of humanity's open-source code; it has become one of the world's most vivid examples of the power of mass collaboration.
All that to say, this list -- Awesome GitHub -- is an attempt to document that aspect of what is awesome: everything that GitHub has become -- far beyond what Git is today, and beyond where GitHub started just eight years ago.
The inspiration for this list came from a session proposal for the 2015 Mozilla Festival. I later learned, serendiptiously, that the Mozilla Festival itself was using GitHub issues to manage the program -- reviewing proposals, assign sessions to tracks and themes, and much more. Just one more example of how GitHub is being used to make awesome.
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STL files - It's pretty amazing, 3D right in the browser.
CSV - Data journalists and civic data nerds rejoice, comma separated values right in the browser!
SVG - Not only can you view scalable vector graphics in the browser, but you can see the difference between versions visually! You've got to see it to believe it. (In fact, you can do this with most image files.)
PSD - That's right, same idea as SVG, but for Photoshop files!
Prose provides a beautifully simple content authoring environment for [CMS-free websites](https://developmentseed.org/blog/2012/07/27/build-cms-free-websites/). It's a web-based interface for managing content on GitHub.
A free/open-source GitHub integration that removes bottlenecks around pull request approval and helps dev teams to painlessly abide by compliance requirements.
