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We believe that by building a product that allows everyone to easily and quickly build, test, deploy and monitor their applications, people will slowly move their open source work to GitLab.

We also realise that many people want the largest set of eyes on their open source work, so we allow you mirror your repositories between GitLab and GitHub automatically.

Lastly, we offer all our features (CE, EES, EEP) and completely free CI to all open source projects. That means you can use GitLab.com for any stage in building, testing and deploying any open source project.

Talking about the product, I think our biggest advantage here is an integrated product that does more compared to GitHub. For example, powerful CI/CD out of the box. You create the project at GitLab.com and you receive not only code hosting and issue tracker but also CI, container registry, auto deploy etc.

Company wise we are doing our best to help popular open source projects migrate from old systems to GitLab. I hope to see more of them join us in nearest future. This should encourage developers use GitLab for their next open source project.

Also if you use GitLab for your private projects it seems convenient to continue using same platform for open source projects too. I expect us get most of popularity among private projects first. As result it should increase amount of public projects later.