Is an organisation on GitHub a user or just a repositories container that needs a user?
<p>As GitHub user I can create an organization. What i don't understand -- Is an organisation independent?</p>

<ul>
<li><strong>Is it a repositories container, that needs a (user) account it <em>belongs</em> to</strong> or</li>
<li><strong><em>is</em> it for itself an (organization) account GitHub user (and doesn't need any personal user account)?</strong> Is it then correct to say, that an organization is a "featured user" account -- an account with all the features of a personal user account (especially code management, commenting etc.) and some additional functionality?</li>
</ul>