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Did they add this in the last 40 mins?

I'm seeing a pretty good description:

" GitHub Next investigates the future of software development. We explore things beyond the adjacent possible. Tools and technologies that will change our craft. New approaches to building healthy, productive software engineering teams. "

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That explains what it does (somewhat vaguely), but not what Github Next is and who makes it up. Is it a team at GitHub that employees work on full time? It it some kind of initiative where GitHub employees spend part of their time working on it? Is it a community effort? Am I able to join in?

I think you're thinking too hard about it. It's just a list of R&D projects that might be interesting to some people.

Or maybe they just updated the site in the last hour. It's got a list of team members and events and stuff.

I don't have such high expectations for websites. It's just a showcase, and it really looks like a showcase site, so the description seemed good enough

It is? It reads like meaningless marketingspeak to me. It doesn't actually say what GitHub-Next is.

I've read the whole page and I'm not sure what it is. I suspect it's a think tank, but I'm not certain.

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