GitHub Accelerator is a 10-week program where open source maintainers receive an initial sponsorship of $20K to work on their project, paired with guidance and workshops from open source leaders, with an end goal of building durable streams of funding for their work. Our goal with the program is to help the maintainers and projects wanting to make a full-time career in open source take their first leap.
The 2023 cohort has 20 projects with 32 participants from all over the world, including Argentina, Australia, Colombia, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Italy, Luxembourg, Pakistan, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, the UK, and the US. And GitHub received over 1,000 applications and looked at many incredible projects throughout this process.
These are the 20 projects in the GitHub Accelerator:
1.) analogjs/analog – Analog is a fullstack meta-framework to build applications and websites with Angular
2.) Atri-Labs/atrilabs-engine – The Python web framework to build production-grade apps
3.) bigskysoftware/htmx – Makes AJAX, Web Sockets, etc. available directly in HTML
4.) code-hike/codehike – Tools for building all types of code walkthroughs: blogs, docs, slides, tutorials, etc.
5.) DioxusLabs/dioxus – Friendly React-like GUI library for desktop, web, mobile, and more, written in Rust
6.) EddieHubCommunity/LinkFree – Connecting with your audience with a single link, showcasing your content and projects
7.) FashionFreedom/Seamly2D – Design CAD to democratize and de-centralize fashion design and production
8.) fastai/nbdev – Increase developer productivity by 10x with a new exploratory programming workflow
9.) formbricks/formbricks – We’re building all essential form functionality. Modular, customizable, and extendable
10.) GyulyVGC/sniffnet – Cross-platform application to comfortably monitor and analyze network traffic
11.) JessicaTegner/pypandoc – Pypandoc provides a thin wrapper for pandoc, a universal document converter
12.) mockoon/mockoon – Mockoon is the easiest and quickest way to design and run mock REST APIs
13.) nuxt/framework – An intuitive framework for building web applications, built for the edge
14.) responsively-org/responsively-app – A dev tool for web developers that aid in faster responsive web page development
15.) simonw/datasette – An open-source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data
16.) spyder-ide/spyder – The scientific Python development environment
17.) strawberry-graphql/strawberry – A GraphQL library for Python that leverages type annotations
18.) termux/termux-app – A terminal emulator for Android that provides 2000+ Linux packages to code on the phone
19.) TimothyStiles/poly – Poly is a fast, well-tested Go package for engineering organisms
20.) trpc/trpc – End-to-end typesafe APIs made easy. Never write another API contract again
The projects cover a wide range of potential open-source business models and while many of the maintainers are looking for a way to sustain their open-source work full-time. And they have differing goals for what financial stability could look like for them.
During the 10-week GitHub Accelerator, the group will participate in weekly sessions with thought leaders in the open-source world, while continuing to focus on building and maintaining their projects. And they will be discussing open source licensing and governance, setting funding goals, working with companies, getting sponsorships, prioritizing issues, onboarding new contributors, securing your project, managing tough conversations, building partnerships, keeping communities safe, fundraising skills, etc.
