Working in teams using github

Question

Which is the preferred way when working in teams on a github project? Should each member have it's own fork or should I create an organisation where the main project is and everyone in the team makes a clone of the project?

Answer 1

Using Organization is the easiest way for your team to collaborate directly to one GitHub repo.
See "User, Organization and Project Pages".
That allows you to manage a group-owned repository (or repositories).

You can even convert an existing account (user) into an organization.

Note that in all cases (fork or organization), a local clone will be needed for any team member to work on a project.
The question is: what that local clone is cloning? Your initial repo, or one of the multiple forks created by your team members? Managing one centralized repo is easier.

Answer 2

To me, forking suggests a permanent divergence, whereas that's definitely not the case for a team project. So go with the usual clone and merge workflow.