The OSPO has established a university-wide GitHub enterprise account available for all Johns Hopkins affiliates and organizations. The enterprise GitHub account includes several features not available in free GitHub accounts and covers costs for existing paid JHU GitHub accounts. If you are currently paying for GitHub, or wish to access additional features available through the enterprise account, please fill out the form below to create a new organization or migrate your existing organization(s) into the enterprise.
Once you receive confirmation about your new organization, please take a few moments and read through these tips:
- If you’re planning to make any of your repositories public, please include a license file. This helps protect your work and define how others can use your code. Instructions for adding a license to a GitHub repository are at this link, and the OSPO website includes a Licensing FAQ if you’re not sure which license to choose.
- It’s a good idea to add a README to any repository – public or private. The OSPO GitHub has an easy-to-follow checklist for writing a README that will help users identify, evaluate, use, and engage with your project.
- All repositories should include a copyright notice, for example: Copyright [year repository becomes public] The Johns Hopkins University