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Re:Now I am become DOI, destroyer of gatekeeping worlds by JBiserkov on Saturday February 20, 2016 @08:19PM (#11142835)
http://zenodo.org will issue a free DOIs for any GitHub release you tell it to. :)

See https://guides.github.com/activities/citable-code

Re:Now I am become DOI, destroyer of gatekeeping worlds by techdragon on Sunday February 21, 2016 @02:00AM (#11143621)
I was about to suggest the building of this very sort of thing. Glad to know it already exists.
Re:Now I am become DOI, destroyer of gatekeeping worlds by IanCal on Sunday February 21, 2016 @05:13AM (#11143981)
There's also figshare.com where you can publish data, papers or whatever really. I published code there so my wife could cite it and we do public data releases on there too.

Disclaimer: I work for digital science, a parent company.