{"id":1341,"date":"2016-09-23T11:13:05","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T15:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/?p=1341"},"modified":"2016-10-18T16:28:30","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T20:28:30","slug":"which-open-source-tool-had-the-most-contributors-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/which-open-source-tool-had-the-most-contributors-in-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Open Source Organization Had the Most Contributors in 2016?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1350\" src=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2016\/09\/Which-Open-Source-Organization-Had-the-Most-Contributors-in-2016.jpg\" alt=\"Which Open Source Organization Had the Most Contributors in 2016?\" width=\"800\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.github.com\" target=\"_blank\">GitHub<\/a>, which\u00a0grew by more than 5.2 million users and\u00a0303K organizations this year, has published\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/octoverse.github.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The state of the Octoverse 2016<\/em><\/a>, a very cool\u00a0report that offers an insight into how its 14 million users\u00a0leveraged\u00a0the hugely popular repository this year. From the report:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/chrislgarry\/Apollo-11\" target=\"_blank\">the code that sent Apollo 11 to the moon<\/a>, to an <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/FreeCodeCamp\/FreeCodeCamp\" target=\"_blank\">open source curriculum that helps nonprofits<\/a>\u2014you shared and built lots of amazing things over the past year. Here are the most starred open source repositories on GitHub, showing which repos users starred in common.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One of the core benefits of open-source projects is how anyone can contribute to the code or documentation. Among them is a list of organizations with the most open source contributors, most popular coding languages, most used emoji reactions, new user interactions and much more.<\/p>\n<p>GitHub\u00a0released new stats today\u00a0about which companies have the most people contributing code to their open source projects,\u00a0Microsoft comes in at #1, with 16,419 contributors, Facebook at close second, with 15,682.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the chart:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1346\" src=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2016\/09\/github-open-source-code.png\" alt=\"github-open-source-code\" width=\"375\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2016\/09\/github-open-source-code.png 989w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2016\/09\/github-open-source-code-219x300.png 219w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2016\/09\/github-open-source-code-768x1051.png 768w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2016\/09\/github-open-source-code-748x1024.png 748w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2016\/09\/github-open-source-code-800x1095.png 800w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2016\/09\/github-open-source-code-197x270.png 197w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2016\/09\/github-open-source-code-59x81.png 59w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2016\/09\/github-open-source-code-131x180.png 131w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Another component of the report, is a run down of the repositories with the most open source contributors.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1342\" src=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2016\/09\/opensource.png\" alt=\"opensource\" width=\"377\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2016\/09\/opensource.png 377w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2016\/09\/opensource-219x300.png 219w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2016\/09\/opensource-197x270.png 197w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2016\/09\/opensource-59x81.png 59w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2016\/09\/opensource-132x180.png 132w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 377px) 100vw, 377px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in contributing to the open source community, a great way to get involved is to contribute to the existing projects you\u2019re using. GitHub is home to more than 5 million open source projects. There are projects for every skill set like <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/sinker\/tacofancy\">recipes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/tobiasahlin\/SpinKit\">HTML\/CSS<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/sferik\/t\">Ruby<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/dfm\/emcee\">Astrophysics<\/a> and many more. <a href=\"https:\/\/guides.github.com\/activities\/contributing-to-open-source\/\" target=\"_blank\">Check out this guide<\/a> by GitHub that covers what you might find in a typical project and how to make a great contribution.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<br \/>Widget not in any sidebars<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GitHub, which\u00a0grew by more than 5.2 million users and\u00a0303K organizations this year, has published\u00a0The state of the Octoverse 2016, a very cool\u00a0report that offers an insight into how its 14 million users\u00a0leveraged\u00a0the hugely popular repository this year. From the report: &#8220;From the code that sent Apollo 11 to the moon, to an open source curriculum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":1350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[455,456,35],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Which Open Source Organization Had the Most Contributors in 2016? - Best Enterprise Cloud Strategy Tools, Vendors, Managed Service Providers, MSP and Solutions<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"GitHub, which\u00a0grew by more than 5.2 million users and\u00a0303K organizations this year, has published\u00a0The state of the Octoverse 2016\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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