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Open Source Heroes – Explore the world of Open Source

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Top users and repos is almost exclusively "awesome-X" lists and things like that. I'm not saying these things aren't useful, but it's not really the same as contributing to open source or being a "top-rated open source developer".

That's right, we have thought a few times that we should just skip repos with no language detected from rankings (and probably move this kind of resources to another section).

Btw, in the "Top Contributors" section, you can filter out contributors by languages, example: https://opensource-heroes.com/contributors?language=python

Also, that isn't really a list of "contributors", but of "organisations with the most stars". Those are different things.

For example "public-apis"[1] didn't "contribute" anything as that's not a person, and looking at GitHub[2] there are a bunch of substantial contributors (the person who created the organisation/repo only has 12 commits by the way);

[1]: https://opensource-heroes.com/o/public-apis

[2]: https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis/graphs/contributo...

That list still seems pretty biased (I think at least, because hovers to show the cards are mostly off-screen, in Firefox anyway).

The only semi-manual section is https://opensource-heroes.com/awesome. All other data in the site is asynchronous updated via the GitHub API. But yeah, we still need to improve some UI stuff, specially in mobile (it looks quite good in desktop).

I appreciate that it's automated; my point is that's not actually a great way to do it, and that some curation is needed.

The top users are not open source contributors, but creators of those "awesome" lists and dev interview prep resources, which are overwhelmingly popular (by number of Github stars) even though they have zero code and don't have open source licenses (they use Creative Commons licenses).

It looks like a nice project but lists can't be Show HNs (see https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html) so I've taken Show HN out of the title now.

There is only one curated section, which is "Awesome" pages (https://opensource-heroes.com/awesome). The rest of the data of the whole site is pulled from GitHub API.

Ok, I've edited the word "curated" out of my comment above. Sorry for the confusion.

Very good idea ! It's nice also to see which company participates the most in open source projects

Thanks! You can also filter out contributors by language and/or country: https://opensource-heroes.com/contributors. And you can even explore stats for each country: https://opensource-heroes.com/countries. And much more! There is also "Reviews" (like Google or Truspilot, but for open source).

Curious to know what the data source is? Github API?

Yes! All data is fetched via GitHub API (due to the massive amount of data and the API rate limit, data is not updated in real time).

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