Open Source transformed software development and created interconnected community of developers

Maneesh Sharma
Country Manager, GitHub India

Open Source: A disruptive technology

Today, 99% of software projects are developed using open source. Open source has revolutionized software development, and created an intercon- nected community of developers that is deeply collaborative and extends across the world.
 

Every line of code that is being written, builds on the code of millions of others. Now, more than ever, open source brings together developers from all over the world to solve challenging problems, create important technologies and make a difference.
 

Advantages of Open Source

GitHub is the de facto collaboration platform and resume for developers all over the world. GitHub is also the DevOps platform for the private development of some of the most innovative companies and leading enterprises. GitHub’s mission is to build the global platform for developer collaboration - nothing important will ever be built without software and without open source, so we want to ensure it is secure and prosperous for many years to come.

The foundation GitHub is building will allow leaders from across industries to come together and further drive secure innovation, faster.

Open Source & organizational strategy

Open source is at the foundation of every software project on earth. Companies from around the world are looking to the open source community to learn from the best practices, the tools and the processes, especially in the remote era we all live in, to build as effectively as possible, the best technology.

Enterprises can learn about how open source works, and contribute back. Today, developers drive innovation within their enterprise. So to become a digital company, every company must build a culture that empowers developers to collaborate and achieve more. No one company can outcompete the brilliance, skills, energy and innovating power of the millions of open source developers that are working across the world, together.

Building secure code is critical to ensuring a faster pace of innovation and a safe and healthy open source community isn’t just good for open source, it benefits the millions of critical technologies that depend on it - securing the world’s code is a collective responsibility and one that we take very seriously at GitHub.