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Concepts for account and profile

Learn the core concepts that you'll need to understand your GitHub account and profile.

Viewing contributions on your profile

Your profile shows off your pinned repositories, Achievements, and a graph of your repository contributions over the past year.

About your organization's profile

Your organization's profile page shows basic information about your organization.

About your profile

Your profile page tells people the story of your work through the repositories you're interested in, the contributions you've made, and the conversations you've had.

About organization membership

You can become a member of an organization to collaborate with coworkers or open-source contributors across many repositories at once.

Changing your GitHub username

You can change the username for your account on GitHub.