San Francisco-based and Microsoft-owned software development and hosting platform GitHub Inc., announced the official launch of GitHub India Private Limited. GitHub hosts the open-source version control system Git that was started by Linus Torvald, who also created the operating system Linux.
India hosts the third largest group of active developers on GitHub, and the company said that Indian developers are truly building the future of software. Over the past year, the number of public repositories in India has grown by 75 percent.
In a statement, GitHub said,
“Our community in India is thriving, with the third-largest number of active developers on GitHub and 22 percent growth over the past year, adding to an already significant base. To better serve those developers and enterprise customers, we’re thrilled to bring GitHub closer by establishing a new GitHub subsidiary in India.”
GitHub also appointed Maneesh Sharma as the general manager for the country to lead the growth efforts for India. A team is going to be built over the next few months, which will include community, engineering, sales, support, marketing, and services. The organisation’s goal is to enable its customers best practices in DevOps at scale, and collaborate with more than 40 million developers across more than 100 million projects.
Additionally, GitHub Education, the platform’s education wing, is extending its popular GitHub Hackathon Grant programme to students in India, to support student hackathons with up to $1,000 in grants. Apart from the support GitHub received for an open source community, a growing number of homegrown businesses like Swiggy and ArisGlobal are also collaborating and building software that powers their businesses on GitHub Enterprise.
“We’re working with organisations across industries to help them deliver winning customer experiences using a modern software supply chain and industry best practices. We’re also expanding our channel partner programme to support GitHub Enterprise customers in running their software development operations effectively, and enable them to achieve their digital transformation ambitions,” the statement from GitHub said.
(Edited by Evelyn Ratnakumar)
