Here are our key findings:

GNOME has a rhythm – there is a measurable increase in activity before release time, and after the annual GNOME conference GUADEC

• While over 70% of GNOME developers identify themselves as volunteers, over 70% of the commits to the GNOME releases are made by paid contributors
• Red Hat are the biggest contributor to the GNOME project and its core dependencies. Red Hat employees have made almost 17% of all commits we measured, and 11 of the top 20 GNOME committers of all time are current or past Red Hat employees. Novell and Collabora are also on the podium.
• A number of top company contributors are consultancy/services companies specialising in the GNOME platform – Collabora, CodeThink, Openismus, Lanedo and Fluendo are in the top 20 companies. As many of these companies grew initially through work on Maemo, this is a sign of the success of Nokia’s strategy around the GNOME stack.

<td style="width: 5%;" align="left" valign="bottom" bgcolor="#00ccff">
  <strong>Commits</strong>
</td>

<td style="width: 5%;" align="left" valign="bottom" bgcolor="#00ccff">
  <strong>Percentage</strong>
</td>

<td align="right" valign="bottom">
  101823
</td>

<td align="right" valign="bottom">
  23.45
</td>

<td align="right" valign="bottom">
  73558
</td>

<td align="right" valign="bottom">
  16.94
</td>

<td align="right" valign="bottom">
  70790
</td>

<td align="right" valign="bottom">
  16.30
</td>

<td align="right" valign="bottom">
  45349
</td>

<td align="right" valign="bottom">
  10.44
</td>

<td align="right" valign="bottom">
  21684
</td>

<td align="right" valign="bottom">
  4.99
</td>

<td align="right" valign="bottom">
  11160
</td>

<td align="right" valign="bottom">
  2.57
</td>

<td align="right" valign="bottom">
  10218
</td>

<td align="right" valign="bottom">
  2.35
</td>

<td align="right" valign="bottom">
  10090
</td>

<td align="right" valign="bottom">
  2.32
</td>

<td align="right" valign="bottom">
  8922
</td>

<td align="right" valign="bottom">
  2.05
</td>

<td align="right" valign="bottom">
  8862
</td>

<td align="right" valign="bottom">
  2.04
</td>

<td align="right" valign="bottom">
  6183
</td>

<td align="right" valign="bottom">
  1.42
</td>

Company

Volunteer

Unknown

Red Hat

Novell

Collabora

Intel

Fluendo

Lanedo

Independent

Sun

Nokia

via Safe as Milk » Blog Archive » GNOME Census.

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