Organizations#

An organization is a shared owner for repositories. Every account also has a personal organization with the same handle as the user.

Creating one#

Open the account menu (bottom of the sidebar) and choose New organization, or go to /orgs/new. Enter a display name; a handle is suggested from it and can be edited. Handles are 1-39 lowercase letters, digits, or single hyphens, with no leading or trailing hyphen. On success you land on the organization page. You must be signed in.

Organization page#

/orgs/<handle> shows the organization's name, handle, and a tab bar:

• Repositories (the default): the organization's profile header (avatar, name, description, company, location, website, as set in settings) above every repository in the organization you can see, with visibility and default branch.
• Members and Teams: shown for non-personal organizations. See organization-members.md.
• Settings: shown only to owners and admins. See organization-settings.md.

Only members can open an organization page; everyone else sees the request failure. Organizations you belong to are listed in the account menu, with their avatars, for quick switching.