Re 2. Big tech companies are building big open source communities.
This past year, we’ve seen that some of the most popular open source projects—and some of the biggest open source communities—are commercially backed by some of the biggest technology companies.
Re 1. We're seeing a rise in infrastructure as code.
There has been tremendous growth in HCL usage in public repositories—and we’re also seeing a growing number of people using Shell and Go.
Re From the Octoverse report this year @martinwoodward had 3 main takeaways:
Want to find out more about the current state of open source and how we see it evolving? 🧵
Just in time for your holiday shopping, er, reading, this week we’ll be sharing an artisanal, hand-curated selection of our finest blog posts from 2022. Get your bookmarking finger ready, find your coziest reading nook, and let’s get to it!
A fun and festive way to visualize your public GitHub activity this year - #GitHubUnwrapped by @JNYBGR:
https://www.githubunwrapped.com/
Looking for a Sunday read? Dive into the world of vintage computing and how it can make you a better developer.
https://github.com/readme/featured/vintage-computing
This month's Release Radar has everything from text recognition, to terminal goodness, some 90s nostalgia and more. As you start to wrap up for the year, read up on these community projects that shipped major version releases. ⬇️
https://github.blog/2022-12-16-release-radar-nov-2022/
🏃 Hoodies & joggers 🏃
👶 Youth shirts & onesies 👶
☀️ Coolers ☀️
All this and more in the GitHub Shop sale!
https://thegithubshop.com/collections/sale-2022
Are you an OS developer with an active and growing set of users, has a vision to grow and maintain their work, and wants to pursue open source work full-time? 🤔
We’d love to meet you through our GitHub Accelerator application, open through December 31.
https://accelerator.github.com/
Re @elenatanasoiu 🥶
Re Don’t know about GitHub Sponsors yet? Check it out.
Who are you sponsoring next year?
Because history so often repeats itself, privacy engineering is about understanding the most common scenarios. @ferdeline has 8 tips for how to assess, mitigate, and address the risks.
https://github.com/readme/guides/privacy-engineering
Does this sound like you? 🤔
✅ An OS developer with an active and growing set of users
✅ Has a vision to grow and maintain their work
✅ Wants to pursue open source work full-time
Apply to the GitHub Accelerator program by Dec 31.
https://accelerator.github.com/
RT GitHub Security
Tune into this week's #osspodcast to hear @thejillboss chat about GitHub’s bug bounty program, including what’s in scope and why we love partnering with researchers
https://opensourcesecurity.io/2022/12/11/episode-353-jill-mone-corallo-on-githubs-bug-bounty-program/
https://twitter.com/GitHubSecurity/status/1603517571319341057
Re Our latest podcast is here, and it's all about gaming—our hosts get nostalgic about their childhood games, we look at the virtual world of gaming, the open source community's role in democratizing game development and much more.
https://github.com/readme/podcast/let-the-games-begin
What was your favorite video game when you were younger?
Secret scanning customers can now leverage push protection for custom patterns – meaning you can can proactively prevent and safeguard your custom secrets from being leaked.
https://github.blog/2022-12-15-github-advanced-security-customers-can-now-push-protect-their-custom-patterns
We’ve launched our secret scanning alert experience for free for all public repositories. You can now proactively detect any leaked secrets that may be exposed in your code and have remediation recommendations – all within the GitHub UI.
https://github.blog/2022-12-15-leaked-a-secret-check-your-github-alerts-for-free
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