Finding inspiration on

You can find inspiration for your own projects and learning on and connect with a community.

In this article

Introduction

is a vast open-source community. You can explore to find interesting repositories, topics, code, people, and organizations that can inspire your own work, or support your own learning.

Once you've found something that interests you, you can:

  • Star the repository or topic, so you can easily find it again later.
  • Follow people or organizations, so you can stay updated on their activities.
  • Download useful repositories or code, and customize it for your own use.
  • Contribute to another user's project, by opening a pull request.

Once you star repositories or follow people, you will see updates on their activities on your personal dasard.

Visit Explore

  1. Navigate to Explore .
  2. Browse popular repositories and topics.
  3. Click Star next to repositories and topics that interest you, so you can easily find them again later.
  4. Navigate to your stars page to see all your starred repositories and topics.

Search for a topic or project on

  1. Navigate to https://.com/search.
  2. Type a keyword or query into the search bar. For example, try "green software tools." For more detailed information about searching for specific topics, repositories, or code, see About searching on .
  3. Use the left sidebar to filter the results. For example, to browse all repositories in the "green-software" topic, search "green-software", then filter by "Topic".
  4. Star the repositories that match your interests, such as 's Green Software Directory.

Following people and organizations on

Following people and organizations is another good way to stay updated on projects and topics that interest you.

Following people

  1. Navigate to the user's profile page.
  2. Under the user's profile picture, click Follow.
  3. Optionally, to unfollow a user, click Unfollow.

Following organizations

  1. Navigate to the organization page you want to follow.

  2. In the top-right corner, click Follow.

    Screenshot of @octo-org's profile page. A button, labeled "Follow", is outlined in dark orange.

  3. Optionally, to unfollow an organization, click Unfollow.

Next steps

  • has a great support community where you can ask for help and talk to people from around the world. Join the conversation on Community.
  • In the next tutorial, Downloading files from , you'll learn how to download files from for your own use, and learn the differences between downloading, cloning, and forking repositories.

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