Keeping in mind the thriving community of startups & developers, GitHub has set up GitHub India Private Limited, a subsidiary of GitHub, Inc.
In its announcement, GitHub said the 3rd-largest number of active developers on GitHub was from India, & there was a 22% growth over the past year, adding to an already significant base. The new subsidiary was “to better serve those developers and enterprise customers.”
The new subsidiary will be led by Maneesh Sharma. GitHub said Indian developers were building the future of software. Over the past year, the number of public repositories in India had grown 75%, demonstrating a sharp increase in collaboration across the Indian developer community. GitHub now wants to capitalize on this growing community & channel it in the right direction “to create stronger relationships with developers & support open source development across developers, maintainers, & enterprises.”
India is also home to one of the largest communities of student developers in the world. Investing in the future of open source by empowering students is key to our efforts to support the amazing developer ecosystem in India. We’re thrilled to announce that GitHub Education is extending our popular GitHub Hackathon Grant program to students in India, which supports student hackathons with up to $1,000 in grants. We’re passionate about supporting the next generation of developers and we’re eager to help more student communities come together to learn and build on GitHub.
– GitHub
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