The Next Cultural Commons
How the Internet has been quietly assembling the next cultural canon
Classic Works
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The Wealth of Nations
- Beowolf
The New Classics
- Ruby
- WordPress
- Bootstrap
Open Source Rules Everything Around Me
- Powers the Internet
(75% of top 10k) - Powers our democracy
(Egypt, Project Open Data)
What If We Lost All This
- Bootstrap (50k)
- Homebrew (12k)
- Rails (18k)
- html5-boilerplate (20k)
- jQuery (20k)
- Node (22k)
- Backbone (14k), D3 (15k)
- Linux (8k)
- CodeIgniter, Symfony, Django (17k)
- Foundation (11k)
GitHub By The Numbers
- 3.4M+ collaborators
- 6.6M+ Projects
- Largest code commons in the world
- ~25 active federal agencies
On The Average Day At GitHub.com…
- 140GB of new data is pushed
- 125k repositories are updated
- 10k people push their very first repository to GitHub.com
- 25k repositories are created
- 7k pull requests are created
- 10k people join GitHub.com
GitHub Activity
New Projects
Open Sourced Projects
Forked Projects
Git
- Tracks who made what change when
- Distributed, everyone has a complete copy
- Open source, open standards
- Efficient, compression baked in
- Cryptographic authentication of history
Challenges And Next Steps
- Storage Space
- Frequency of changes
- Original v. forks
- Public v. private
- Social layer