We've run the largest survey of the open source community to date, the results of are an open dataset for us all to use and learn from. We hope the dataset informs some of the most pressing questions about open source software, the people that create it, their experience, and their relationship to the industry that depends on it.
Learn more about the survey design and the topics we're studying.
At GitHub our goal is to help everyone build better software. We believe open source code, communities, and principles create better software. As an industry, we know a lot about how open source software is created but very little about the people who create and use it. Are they professional developers, students, or hobbyists?
To build better software, then we need a software community where anyone, regardless of what they look like or where they come from, can participate. This survey will help us see how we, as a community, are doing.
Open source is bigger than any company or community. The dataset is released under CC0-1.0 for anyone to use and learn from.
This survey is primarily designed and implemented by GitHub:
This isn't a solo effort for us, these awesome individuals and organizations have helped us design this survey:
Check out the contributing guidelines if you want to get involved.
The material in this repo is open data released under CC0-1.0. This means you need no copyright or database right (if any) permissions to make use of this data and survey questions. However:
The data is additionally published on Zenodo, which provides a DOI as well as an easy way to generate citations in a number of formats. We suggest modifying autogenerated citations to reflect the original publication source, e.g as below.
@misc{GitHubOpenSourceSurvey2017,
author = {Zlotnick, Frances},
title = {GitHub Open Source Survey 2017},
month = jun,
year = 2017,
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.806811},
publisher = {GitHub, Inc.},
howpublished = {\url{http://opensourcesurvey.org/2017/}}
}