Recognizing Community Leaders on GitHub
GitHub’s developer community spans millions of people building and sharing code. Within that ecosystem, a smaller group stands out: developers who actively educate, inspire, and shape the communities around them. The new GitHub Stars program is designed to acknowledge these individuals and give their work a broader platform.
The program targets three core qualities: inspiring others, educating peers, and influencing community growth. Stars are people who share their expertise freely, whether through podcasts, videos, blogs, meetups, or community conferences, with no expectation of compensation.
Monica Powell, a software engineer, focuses on making open-source contributions more approachable. She creates content on dev.to such as How to Create a GitHub Profile ReadMe, contributes to projects like The New York Public Library’s eBook software, teaches web development, and founded the React Ladies community.
Eddie Jaoude, a full stack engineer, is driven to bring more people into open source. His YouTube channel covers topics like Git must know commands and branch renaming, alongside live streams such as how he convinced a company to go open source.
Selected Stars receive rewards aimed at expanding their reach:
- Early feature access
- Insight calls with the GitHub teams
- Event and speaking invites
- Featured profile
- All of the swag
Community members can nominate leaders here, or browse profiles of current Stars. Over the coming weeks, GitHub will spotlight individual Stars and their contributions on the program’s website.
