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    India has emerged as the fastest growing country in the world by open source contribution.

    GitHub, a Microsoft-owned company that provides internet hosting for software development and version control using Git, stated that India witnessed a 80% spike in GitHub developers joining the open-source community and thus became the fastest growing country in the world.

    According to GitHub, over one million developers created their first opensource repository on GitHub in India. The company has witnessed phenomenal growth in the country after its launch in February last year.

    India is home to GitHub’s third-largest community of developers in the world. GitHub predicts the community will grow to more than 10 million developers in India by 2023.

    GitHub community

    Over 1.8 million new developers have joined GitHub in India over the past year with the community in India now totalling 5.8 million developers. The number of contributions on the platform, such as issues and team discussions increased by 75% in India compared to about 40% for the rest of the world over the past year.

    The company made the announcement during the new programmes for developers, students and startups in India at the GitHub Satellite India virtual event, attracting participants and speakers from across the country.

    The two-day virtual conference celebrates India’s vibrant developer community and innovative open source projects, with hands-on workshops and expert sessions.

    The company is witnessing the same level of engagement and growth across enterprises embracing open source. The pandemic has accelerated digital transformation and urged companies to adopt more flexible ways of working to continue to innovate and remain relevant.

    Enterprise business

    In less than a year, the adoption of GitHub Enterprise by businesses based in India has tripled. Companies such as Infosys, Cognizant, InMobi, Udaan, ShareChat, Capillary Technologies, Swiggy, ArisGlobal and many others have chosen GitHub to collaborate and build the software that powers their businesses, accelerating digital transformation, no matter where their developers are based.

    In addition, GitHub partners including Amrut Software, Canarys Automations, CXIO Technologies, DevTools, Embee Software, G7CR Technologies and Sonata Software are helping customers across India embrace an agile, secure and collaborative software development culture.

    GitHub India Country Manager Maneesh Sharma said India has become an innovation powerhouse, with open source software development at the core.

    “The growth in activity and engagement shows how powerful and invested India’s software development has become. Indian developers are truly building the future of software and the country is uniquely positioned to continue to drive innovation that accelerates human progress,” said Maneesh Sharma.

    Open Source grant

    He also said GitHub is humbled to serve and celebrate with a community connected by code and it is privileged to be part of this incredible journey, empowering the developer community and businesses in India, to build the technology that is driving the nation’s growth.

    As GitHub continues to grow its developer community in India, the company has introduced three new programs for India: GitHub Open Source Grants, GitHub Externships, and GitHub Accelerate.

    To support and fund open source maintainers and contributors in their important work, GitHub has launched the GitHub Open Source Grants for India.

    GitHub will offer grants for a total sum of INR 1 crore (10 million) to celebrate and support the extremely valuable open source projects that are driving innovation across India, and raise awareness of this important work to attract more software contributions from the developer community across the world.

    Student developers

    India is also home to one of the largest communities of student developers in the world. In 2020, GitHub saw the number of students participating in the GitHub Campus program increase by 142%.

    Over 100,000 students signed up to GitHub Student Developer Pack and its campus offering was adopted by more than 100 higher-education institutions in India.

    To support this growing community of student developers, the company is launching GitHub Externships, which builds on GitHub’s Campus offering by providing students a unique opportunity to engage with companies in India, via fellowship programs, and build the right skills future developers need, to succeed in an enterprise environment. The program helps to connect the dots between open source, the next generation of software developers, and successful companies.

    To support India’s vibrant tech startup community, in partnership with a few leading venture partners in India, GitHub ran a pilot program last year to provide access to GitHub Enterprise to startups in India.

    GitHub Accelerate programme

    The programme has seen outstanding engagement, with nearly 200 startups signing up, including AirMeet, Kawa Space, and ClearQuote, to name a few. As a next step, GitHub has announced the extension of its GitHub Accelerate program to startup accelerators, incubators and more venture partners in India, expanding the eligibility of the program to more than 1,000 new startups in the coming year.

    As GitHub Accelerate grows, GitHub predicts that the number of developers contributing to open source projects in India will reach record levels over the next few years.

    Along with these programs announced to further accelerate, empower and serve the developer community and ecosystem in India, GitHub has also announced a partnership with the NASSCOM FutureSkills program.

    GitHub will extend its GitHub Campus Program and Student Developer Pack to students, educators and institutes that are a part of NASSCOM’s university initiatives. Startups participating in NASSCOM’s incubator programs will also be able to access the GitHub Accelerate program.

    The NASSCOM FutureSkills program aims at reskilling and upskilling two million professionals from the current IT workforce, and training another two million coming out of universities and other industry sectors across the country.

    This article first appeared in the NFA Post and is republished with permission

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