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How is that calculated? I mean Microsoft only has 2561 members (https://github.com/orgs/Microsoft/people https://github.com/orgs/Microsoft/people) , so it isn'

How is that calculated? I mean Microsoft only has 2561 members (https://github.com/orgs/Microsoft/people https://github.com/orgs/Microsoft/people) , so it isn't how many microsoft members contribute to open source. Is it how many contributors their open source projects have? nope, FontAwesome has maybe 100 contributors to all of it's 5 projects but it's listed as having 9000+ contributors. From what I can gather it's mostly based on the number of people that forked one of their projects (with some padding, maybe by the number of contributors to forks of the project? I have no idea) This doesn't seem like a metric that is more meaningful then just the number of stars a repository has.

BanzaiTokyo 10y ago
I guess that other _companies_ have even less than 2561 employees on GitHub
Maakuth 10y ago
One method that comes to mind would be checking commit authors' e-mail addresses. Someone with @microsoft.com e-mail would very likely be an employee of MSFT.
- Illniyar 10y ago
  I doubt that explains FonttAwesome though.
us0r 10y ago
Microsoft also has: https://github.com/azure https://github.com/azure https://github.com/OfficeDev https://github.com/OfficeDev https://github.com/mspnp https://github.com/mspnp https://github.com/dotnet https://github.com/dotnet https://github.com/aspnet https://github.com/aspnet https://github.com/powershell https://github.com/powershell https://github.com/nuget https://github.com/nuget - not sure this counts plus probable another 100 i'm not aware of.
- eDameXxX 10y ago
  and many more but this is still not the entire list: https://github.com/Xamarin https://github.com/Xamarin https://github.com/PowerBI https://github.com/PowerBI https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge https://github.com/yammer https://github.com/yammer https://github.com/OneDrive https://github.com/OneDrive https://github.com/MicrosoftResearch https://github.com/MicrosoftResearch https://github.com/LIS https://github.com/LIS https://github.com/DynamicsCRM https://github.com/DynamicsCRM https://github.com/MicrosoftDX https://github.com/MicrosoftDX https://github.com/ms-iot https://github.com/ms-iot https://github.com/microsoft-mobile https://github.com/microsoft-mobile https://github.com/thaliproject https://github.com/thaliproject https://github.com/OneGet https://github.com/OneGet . Please take a look here: https://microsoft.github.io https://microsoft.github.io
  - ihsw 10y ago
    This is massive and as a die-hard Linux dude it fills me with great joy to see this. TypeScript, vscode, and dotnet/core are my bread and butter and I couldn't be happier. I work in a .Net shop and witnessing everybody (slowly) move towards this middle-ground between .Net and Linux stacks is like watching history in the making.
- arcticfox 10y ago
  I'm no huge fan of Microsoft but leading that list with Azure made me recall a nice experience I had with their devs. One of their APIs was missing something I needed so I created an issue on Github. Not only did the devs respond, they thanked me profusely for the input and made the (rather significant) change in days. I don't know if it's true or not, but I felt like their only user whenever I interacted with them (their issue tracker was rather empty...)
  - tracker1 10y ago
    I had a similar experience with MS employees for an issue on a third party SQL driver using it with Azure SQL... very courteous, professional, and was included on some internal email chains to keep me informed. It did take a couple days, but the effort was very nice to say the least. It was an Azure team member that spotted the bug and worked with some of the MS SQL guys to resolve the issue. I can't speak for the larger organization, but will say that the Azure and .Net Core teams have been incredibly open and responsive. And with a huge amount of their devdiv stuff in Github, it doesn't surprise me they'd be one of the largest corporate contributors on Github.
alpb 10y ago
2561 members are the ones who made Microsoft org show up on their GitHub profile. By default, GitHub does not list your orgs on your profile. And many people are simply not aware of this, because your profile page looks different to you and others. You don't realize this until you visit your profile from incognito window or something. The actual people count in https://github.com/orgs/Microsoft/people https://github.com/orgs/Microsoft/people is twice as much. (I can see the actual number because I'm in the org.)
- Illniyar 10y ago
  Oh, I didn't know that. But it's still obvious that this is not the metric that was used.
yothisisalex 10y ago
omg, it's based on "the number of unique contributors (users who pushed code, opened or commented on an issue or PR)" (from https://octoverse.github.com/#open-source https://octoverse.github.com/#open-source). So if I open sourced a buggy project, and someone reported a bug by opening an issue, and then 100 other people commented on that issue, my project would have 101 contributors!

BanzaiTokyo 10y ago

I guess that other _companies_ have even less than 2561 employees on GitHub

Maakuth 10y ago

One method that comes to mind would be checking commit authors' e-mail addresses. Someone with @microsoft.com e-mail would very likely be an employee of MSFT.

Illniyar 10y ago
I doubt that explains FonttAwesome though.

us0r 10y ago

Microsoft also has: https://github.com/azure https://github.com/azure https://github.com/OfficeDev https://github.com/OfficeDev https://github.com/mspnp https://github.com/mspnp https://github.com/dotnet https://github.com/dotnet https://github.com/aspnet https://github.com/aspnet https://github.com/powershell https://github.com/powershell https://github.com/nuget https://github.com/nuget - not sure this counts plus probable another 100 i'm not aware of.

eDameXxX 10y ago
and many more but this is still not the entire list: https://github.com/Xamarin https://github.com/Xamarin https://github.com/PowerBI https://github.com/PowerBI https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge https://github.com/yammer https://github.com/yammer https://github.com/OneDrive https://github.com/OneDrive https://github.com/MicrosoftResearch https://github.com/MicrosoftResearch https://github.com/LIS https://github.com/LIS https://github.com/DynamicsCRM https://github.com/DynamicsCRM https://github.com/MicrosoftDX https://github.com/MicrosoftDX https://github.com/ms-iot https://github.com/ms-iot https://github.com/microsoft-mobile https://github.com/microsoft-mobile https://github.com/thaliproject https://github.com/thaliproject https://github.com/OneGet https://github.com/OneGet . Please take a look here: https://microsoft.github.io https://microsoft.github.io
- ihsw 10y ago
  This is massive and as a die-hard Linux dude it fills me with great joy to see this. TypeScript, vscode, and dotnet/core are my bread and butter and I couldn't be happier. I work in a .Net shop and witnessing everybody (slowly) move towards this middle-ground between .Net and Linux stacks is like watching history in the making.
arcticfox 10y ago
I'm no huge fan of Microsoft but leading that list with Azure made me recall a nice experience I had with their devs. One of their APIs was missing something I needed so I created an issue on Github. Not only did the devs respond, they thanked me profusely for the input and made the (rather significant) change in days. I don't know if it's true or not, but I felt like their only user whenever I interacted with them (their issue tracker was rather empty...)
- tracker1 10y ago
  I had a similar experience with MS employees for an issue on a third party SQL driver using it with Azure SQL... very courteous, professional, and was included on some internal email chains to keep me informed. It did take a couple days, but the effort was very nice to say the least. It was an Azure team member that spotted the bug and worked with some of the MS SQL guys to resolve the issue. I can't speak for the larger organization, but will say that the Azure and .Net Core teams have been incredibly open and responsive. And with a huge amount of their devdiv stuff in Github, it doesn't surprise me they'd be one of the largest corporate contributors on Github.

alpb 10y ago

2561 members are the ones who made Microsoft org show up on their GitHub profile. By default, GitHub does not list your orgs on your profile. And many people are simply not aware of this, because your profile page looks different to you and others. You don't realize this until you visit your profile from incognito window or something. The actual people count in https://github.com/orgs/Microsoft/people https://github.com/orgs/Microsoft/people is twice as much. (I can see the actual number because I'm in the org.)

Illniyar 10y ago
Oh, I didn't know that. But it's still obvious that this is not the metric that was used.

yothisisalex 10y ago

omg, it's based on "the number of unique contributors (users who pushed code, opened or commented on an issue or PR)" (from https://octoverse.github.com/#open-source https://octoverse.github.com/#open-source). So if I open sourced a buggy project, and someone reported a bug by opening an issue, and then 100 other people commented on that issue, my project would have 101 contributors!