Open source & community
OSS とコミュニティOSS
How engineers take part in open source and the wider community: contribution numbers, public funding, conferences and government use.
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Japan日本JP4 claims
South Korea韓国KR4 claims
In GitHub Octoverse 2023, South Korea had more than 1.9 million developers, up 22% year on year.
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NIPA runs the Open Source Contribution Academy, which supports Korean developers in contributing to global open source projects. In 2024 it selected 282 participants from 931 applicants, and it held a launch ceremony again in 2026.
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Open source projects from Korean companies include NAVER's APM tool Pinpoint (about 13.9k stars) and LINE's Armeria (about 5.1k stars).
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In the EF EPI 2024, South Korea ranked 50th of 116 countries and regions, well ahead of Japan (92nd).
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China中国CN5 claims
OSS Compass estimates that China has more than 2.2 million active open source developers, the most of any country (India has about 2 million).
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In 2020, MIIT contracted a consortium of companies and universities led by Gitee to build a Chinese independent open source hosting platform. In May 2022, Gitee began reviewing all public code before publication and hid large numbers of repositories without notice.
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A CUHK study found that commits on Gitee dropped sharply after the platform introduced pre-publication review of public code.
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Ten of 28 projects in the ASF incubator came from Chinese companies. TiDB, from PingCAP (founded in Beijing in 2015), has about 40,000 GitHub stars and more than 1,200 contributors.
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OpenHarmony is based on code Huawei donated to the OpenAtom Foundation in 2020–21. As of January 2025 it had 401 ecosystem partners, but its leading contributors are concentrated in Huawei and its affiliates.
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IndiaインドIN4 claims
According to GitHub Octoverse 2025, India has 21.9 million developers, second only to the US (up from 4.5 million in 2020). More than 5 million joined in 2025 alone.
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- GitHub Octoverse 2025 (2025)
The same Octoverse 2025 report says India has already overtaken the US to have the world's largest base of public and open source contributors, and projects 57.5 million developers in India by 2030.
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- GitHub Octoverse 2025 (2025)
Zerodha launched FLOSS/fund in October 2024 to give $1 million a year to open source projects worldwide. In 2025 it paid out a total of $1 million to projects including Blender, FFmpeg and OpenSSL.
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Zerodha CTO Kailash Nadh says India uses FOSS heavily but its contributions are negligible, and has proposed a government-backed sovereign FOSS fund.
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United StatesアメリカUS2 claims
According to Octoverse 2025, the number of US developers on GitHub grew from 10.2 million in 2020 to 28 million in 2025, the most of any country. The US ranks second to India in open source contributors and first in total contributions.
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- GitHub Octoverse 2025 (2025)
The same Octoverse 2025 report says the US, UK, and Canada more than doubled their developer counts from 2020 to 2025, while India and Brazil more than quadrupled. Its 2030 projection puts India ahead of the United States.
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- GitHub Octoverse 2025 (2025)
United KingdomイギリスUK3 claims
According to Octoverse 2024, the UK has more than 4 million developers on GitHub, up 19% year over year. Octoverse 2025 projects about 11 million by 2030.
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- GitHub Octoverse 2024 (2024)
- GitHub Octoverse 2025 (2025)
An estimate by the industry body OpenUK (2023) attributes 27% of the UK tech sector's gross value added in 2022 to open source.
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The public sector has made publishing code the default. The Skills Funding Agency reused GOV.UK's Smart Answers code and finished in under a week work that would otherwise have taken at least two months.
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GermanyドイツDE5 claims
According to Octoverse 2024, Germany has more than 3.5 million developers on GitHub, up 21% year over year. Octoverse 2025 says the number of German developers more than tripled from 2020 to 2025.
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- GitHub Octoverse 2024 (2024)
- GitHub Octoverse 2025 (2025)
Germany had the second-largest number of respondents to the Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2025 after the United States (3,022, or 8.6%). This measures participation in the survey, not developers per capita.
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By October 2024, two years after its launch, the Sovereign Tech Fund (now the Sovereign Tech Agency) had invested more than $24.9 million in 60 open source technologies. Recipients include curl, OpenSSH, systemd, PHP, and FFmpeg.
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The CCC's Chaos Communication Congress drew about 15,000 people to 38C3 (December 2024, Hamburg). KDE e.V. was registered in Tübingen in 1997 and is headquartered in Berlin. SUSE was founded in 1992 and is based in Nuremberg.
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In 2024, Schleswig-Holstein announced it would move 30,000 government PCs to LibreOffice and Linux, and the LibreOffice migration was about 80% complete by the end of 2025. The federal government develops openDesk through ZenDiS and released version 1.0 in October 2024.
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FranceフランスFR5 claims
Under the Digital Republic Act (2016), government source code became an administrative document subject to access requests. Bodies with 50 or more staff must publish it, and Article 16 encourages the use of free software and open formats.
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The SILL, the interministerial catalog of recommended free software run by DINUM, began in 2012 and reached 500 entries in November 2024. A 2026 announcement says more than 600 tools have been listed over its history.
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DINUM's La Suite numérique and Germany's openDesk from ZenDiS have collaborated since 2024. The collaborative editor Docs is a joint Franco-German initiative that the Netherlands is also joining.
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VLC began in 1996 as a student project at École Centrale Paris, was released under the GPL in 2001, and has been run by an independent nonprofit since 2009. scikit-learn was supported by Inria from 2010 and moved to the spin-off company Probabl in 2023.
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According to Octoverse 2024, France has more than 2.8 million developers on GitHub, up 20% year over year. France ranked fifth by respondents in the Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2025 (1,408, or 4%).
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The Nordics北欧NORD5 claims
Linux began on 1991-08-25, when Linus Torvalds, then a student at the University of Helsinki, posted to comp.os.minix that it was "just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu."
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MySQL AB was a Swedish company founded in 1995, with one of its headquarters in Uppsala. Co-founder and main MySQL author Michael Widenius is Finnish, born in Helsinki. Sun bought the company in 2008 for about $1 billion, and MariaDB later forked from MySQL.
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Erlang was created at Ericsson in 1986. According to Armstrong (HOPL III, 2007), Ericsson Radio's 1998 ban on using it in new products led to its open-source release on December 2 of that year.
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Norwegians Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard laid the foundations of object orientation with Simula and received the Turing Award in 2001. Qt came out of Norway's Trolltech (founded 1994), and today's Qt Group is headquartered in Espoo, Finland.
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David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of Ruby on Rails, is Danish. Rails was released in 2004.
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NetherlandsオランダNL2 claims
On 2018-07-12, Guido van Rossum stepped down as Python's BDFL in a python-committers post titled "Transfer of power." He named no successor and left it to the core developers to decide how the project would be governed.
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ING brought the Spotify model to a large bank, organizing about 350 squads into 13 tribes (McKinsey, 2017).
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IsraelイスラエルIL2 claims
Company-led open source includes Wix's Detox, an end-to-end testing framework for mobile apps with about 12,000 GitHub stars, and monday.com's design system Vibe.
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- GitHub: wix/Detox (2026)
- GitHub: mondaycom/vibe (2026)
According to SecurityWeek, VCs with 8200 alumni such as Team8 and Cyberstarts invest in startups founded by fellow alumni, and money from exits flows back into new investments.
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BrazilブラジルBR3 claims
Octoverse 2025 counts 6.89 million Brazilian developers on GitHub, fourth in the world. The number more than quadrupled over 2020-25, and Brazil ranks third for open source contributors. GitHub projects 19.6 million by 2030.
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- GitHub Octoverse 2025 (2025)
Octoverse 2024 counts more than 5.4 million developers in Brazil, up 27% year on year. GitHub attributes part of this growth to students.
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- GitHub Octoverse 2024 (2024)
- InfoQ: GitHub Octoverse 2024 (2024)
José Valim (a USP graduate and former Rails Core Team member) started Elixir in 2011, and the Brazilian company Plataformatec backed its development from 2012.
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PolandポーランドPL2 claims
GitHub's "Made in Poland" collection includes the headless commerce platform Saleor (about 23,000 stars), Software Mansion's react-native-reanimated and the data grid Handsontable (about 22,000).
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In the GitHub Innovation Graph, developer accounts located in Poland grew from about 530,000 in Q1 2020 to about 2.07 million in Q1 2026, roughly a fourfold increase.
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UkraineウクライナUA3 claims
GitLab is an open source project that Dmitriy Zaporozhets started at his home in Ukraine in 2011. In 2014 he turned it into a company with Sytse Sijbrandij from the Netherlands.
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Grammarly (a product, not open source) was founded in Kyiv in 2009 by Max Lytvyn, Alex Shevchenko and Dmytro Lider. Its largest engineering hub is still in Kyiv.
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The developer community DOU.ua's annual survey "Портрет айтівця 2026" (Portrait of an IT specialist) drew 14,631 respondents. The community publishes its own pay and contract data every year.
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- DOU: Портрет айтівця 2026 (2026)