About creating a new project in GitHub

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Kinda new to GitHub, I want to create a repository for my open-source project.

If my username is Bob, the link would be like https://github.com/bob/my-project

And you could visit my personal profile at https://github.com/bob

However, I have seen projects like this: https://github.com/ruby/ruby

My guess was: well, it means that there is some user called "ruby" who has a repository called "ruby".

So naturally, I could see this "ruby" user's personal profile at https://github.com/ruby... But you can tell that's NOT a normal profile. Instead, it is some sort of list for related repositories.

Well then, what is that? Am I supposed to do the same thing?

Lochlan · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-04 04:23:20Z

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That is a GitHub organization.

answered Jan 4, 2014 at 4:23

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patrick · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-04 04:24:18Z

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It is an organisation. https://github.com/blog/674-introducing-organizations

On Github you can create organisations to organize members and repositories.

answered Jan 4, 2014 at 4:24

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