Install steps ubuntu - abiczo/github-notifier GitHub Wiki
sudo apt-get install python-gtk2 python-setuptools
sudo easy_install feedparser
git clone git://github.com/abiczo/github-notifier.git
cd github-notifier
sudo python setup.py install
Add or edit github section:
[github]
user = <your user name>
token = <your api token key from github's account settings page>