> It's just a place where you store your git repo. But Github is so much more than that. It's a public forum to discuss and prioritize issues, a social networ

> It's just a place where you store your git repo. But Github is so much more than that. It's a public forum to discuss and prioritize issues, a social network to start projects with friends, an automatic portfolio of sorts for your resume, and a really well managed, nicely integrated, reliable service. This is all, I think, a function of its scale and the traction it's gotten.