6 most significant open source communities

There are many open-source communities though, let’s talk about what’re the biggest ones. (This is not ranking just based on my perspective)

Apache Software Foundation

As you can guess already, it’s Apache software foundation (ASF). The Apache software foundation has over 350 open-source projects, and 7,000+ contributors in 2021 (not accumulated). Although Tomcat is one of the most popular ones, there are Apache Hadoop, Kafka, and Spark extremely popular and very welcomed by many industries.

Linux Community

Next one, yes Linux community. This is one of the largest and most active open-source communities. There are more than 20,000 contributors in over 1,500 countries having top contributing companies, Intel, Redhat, IBM and Google. There are tons of distributions such as Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, CentOS, and Arch Linux.

GitHub

I would talk about GitHub, which has over 65 million developers and 100 million repositories in the community version making it the largest platform for hosting on open source software. Some may not know GibHub is not owned by Microsoft, acquired in 2018- for $7.5 billion.

Kubernetes

Kubernetes is not a raising star anymore, but the most popular platform for orchestrating their microservices. The Kubernetes community has over 2,500 active contributors in 2021 and community-driven development and…