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Who contributes more to open source? Facebook, Twitter or Github?

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Is this just who contributes on github? There is more to open source than just contributing on github. Also, just because you open sourced a piece of code, does that really justify it to be open source on the same level as gcc? or some other largely adopted project? I could open source lots of random things but if no one is using them then one could argue it isn't a contribution.

More accurately titled, "Who has the most repositories." Having the most repositories is not the same as "who contributes the most."

I wonder if they have / can come up with some kind of quality metric, however bogus it may be, based on activity, watchers, forks, etc.

Terrible sign up process. You have to link either a github, twitter or linkedin account -- there is no normal username/password signup. And once you do you're greeted with this message:

  Welcome to Coderwall! We add new members to our beta at the end of every week.

So, it takes them a week to create an account?

Limiting login to these services makes sense - there's no point in signing up without an account to pull data from (one could argue that you could limit logins to Github / other code repositories explicitly) since the whole point of an account is to receive achievements for code you've written. I think the real problem is hiding the rest of the leaderboard past the top 10 behind a login, which seems awfully silly.

I don't understand how these numbers are computed. I have 197 public repositories, two less than the number one company, but Google is not listed at all in the top ten.

Very misleading title. Don't think google hosts any of their code on github so apparently they don't contribute to open source?

For Facebook, it shows Joe Hewitt. I know he created Three20 but he isn't at Facebook anymore.

His Github profile says "Facebook", which is where they pull the data from.

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