The European Union surpassed the United States as the first source of pushes to public Git repositories on GitHub, and that doesn't count the alternatives like Gitlab and Codeberg where I assume there's an even larger fraction of European contributions.

[ronnylam@mastodon.social]

@fj Time to cut it off from Microsoft again. Something that should never have happened.

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@fj imagine if Brexit hadn't happened... we'd be crushing this chart

[fj@mastodon.social]

@_elena Wait until Ukraine and Canada join and our British friends accept to rejoin and abandon their “a-la-carte” approach to the EU

[jaj@mastodon.social]

@fj And that doesn't even count Ukraine !

[cosmiccactus@mastodon.social]

@fj @johkra Is this for public or private repos? Perhaps they prefer closed source.

[fj@mastodon.social]

@CosmicCactus @johkra Public repos only! So this is only for open source.

[max@poliverso.org]

@fj

I read an interesting article a couple of days ago saying the problem is not that big with applications but with infrastructure.

From submarine cables up to clouds we rely on USA technology and they could stop Europe with a click even if we were completely independent at the application level.

[melroy@mastodon.melroy.org]

@fj also notice China is dropping. And India is also rising.

[closeted_unionist@mastodon.social]

@fj Would cost of living / quality of life be a factor here ?

[fritzadalis@infosec.exchange]

@fj @Viss
AND INDIA COMES UP FROM BEHIND WITH A STEEL CHAIR!

[aho@mastodon.social]

@fj sadly it's to storage controlled by unreliable allied, should move away from GitHub IMHO.

[newsgroup@social.vir.group]

@fj Interesting milestone: The EU has overtaken the US as the primary source of pushes to public GitHub repositories. The original post also notes this doesn't include EU-heavy platforms like GitLab and Codeberg, suggesting the European share of open-source contributions is even larger.