Open Source's New Map: India, Croatia, Ethiopia
India has overtaken the US as the largest contributor base to public open source projects, and one in three new GitHub developers now joins from a country that wasn't in the global top ten in 2020. Starting from a Croatian-built offline dictation app called Whisperian, this episode digs into GitHub's Octoverse data: quadrupling developer populations in India, Brazil, and Indonesia, triple-digit growth in Ethiopia, Serbia, and Costa Rica, and a generative-AI contributor pool that tripled in twenty months. But the numbers come with caveats — self-reported locations, wide forecast error bars —…
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