Github Organization

About

Organizations are shared accounts where businesses and open-source projects can collaborate across many projects at once. Owners and administrators can manage member access to the organization's data and projects with sophisticated security and administrative features.

Organizations include:

• A free option, GitHub Free, with unlimited collaborators on unlimited public repositories with full features and unlimited private repositories with limited features.
• The option to upgrade to GitHub Team or GitHub Enterprise Cloud for additional features, including sophisticated user authentication and management, and escalated support options. For more information, see "GitHub's products."
• Unlimited membership with a variety of roles that grant different levels of access to the organization and its data
• The ability to give members a range of access permissions to your organization's repositories
• Nested teams that reflect your company or group's structure with cascading access permissions and mentions
• The ability for organization owners to view members' two-factor authentication (2FA) status
• The option to require all organization members to use two-factor authentication
• The option to purchase a license for GitHub Advanced Security and use the features on private repositories. For more information, see "About GitHub Advanced Security."

Create an organization from scratch

When you create a new organization from scratch, it doesn't have any repositories associated with it. For more information on adding repositories to your organization, see "Creating a new repository" and "Transferring a repository."

• In the upper-right corner of any page, click your profile photo, then click Settings.

  

• In your user settings sidebar, click Organizations.

  

• In the "Organizations" section, click New organization.

  

Inviting users to join your organization

You can invite anyone to become a member of your organization using their GitHub username or email address. Organization owners can invite users to join an organization.

1. In the top right corner of GitHub, click your profile photo, then click Your profile.

2. In the top right corner of GitHub, click your profile photo, then click Your organizations.

3. Under your organization name, click People.

4.On the People tab, click Invite member.Type the username, full name, or email address of the person you want to invite and click Invite.

5. If the person you're inviting has never been a member of the organization or if you cleared their privileges, choose a role for the user.

6. Click Send invitation.