Inspired by the great presentations at the Magento Developers Paradise 2011 I’ve been following some of the code created there on GitHub and some of the presenters own projects and here’s 7 great Magento projects you should be following on GitHub:

Magento GitHub Sites

1. 2Boys1Shop / Twoboysoneshop_Configr

Multi-shop configurator shown at MDP 2011

https://github.com/2Boys1Shop/Twoboysoneshop_Configr

2. alistairstead / MageTool

Tool to quickly create now Mage extension frameworks

https://github.com/alistairstead/MageTool

3. dankocherga / MTool

Auto creates files for new Magento module

https://github.com/dankocherga/MTool
https://github.com/dankocherga/MTool/wiki/Manual

4. jirafe / magento-plugin

Magento plugin for Jirafe stats

https://github.com/jirafe/magento-plugin/wiki/Overview

5. firegento / firegento-dynamiccategory

Dynamic category

https://github.com/firegento/firegento-dynamiccategory

6. More Vanish options

http://www.kalenyuk.com.ua/magento-performance-optimization-with-varnish-cache-47.html
http://jirafeinc.tumblr.com/post/6392764424/varnish-caching-with-magento

7. Firegento

FireGento extension with core functionality for debugging Magento

https://github.com/firegento/firegento