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Create useful open-source projects, tools, learning resources, and developer experiences.
Open Source Recognition
Recognize people who build for developers.
Great open-source communities are built by people who create, teach, mentor, maintain, and share. If someone's public work has helped developers and the open-source ecosystem, consider putting them forward for GitHub Stars.
Use GitHub's official nomination process and review the current program criteria.
GitHub Stars
Build. Share. Inspire.Recognizing people who help developers discover and participate in open source.
Why recognition matters
Open source grows through people.
Code is only one part of the ecosystem. Documentation, education, mentorship, community building, and knowledge sharing help make open source accessible to more developers.
Teach
Share knowledge through documentation, tutorials, community discussions, workshops, and mentorship.
Support
Help other developers learn, contribute, collaborate, and become more confident with open source.
Grow
Contribute consistently to the developer ecosystem and make your work discoverable.
Nomination guide
A simple way to recognize impact.
Before submitting a nomination, gather concrete public examples of the person's work and explain how that work has helped developers or the open-source community.
Identify the contributor
Choose a person whose public work demonstrates meaningful contributions to developers or open source.
Collect evidence
Gather public projects, tutorials, talks, documentation, community work, or other examples that support the nomination.
Explain the impact
Describe what the person did, who it helped, and why the contribution matters to the developer community.
Submit through GitHub
Use GitHub's official nomination process and follow the current instructions on the nomination page.
What to highlight
Tell the story behind the contribution.
Strong nominations are easier to understand when they connect a person's work with a specific developer or community outcome.
Specific public contributions
Evidence of community participation
Educational or technical impact
Links to relevant public work
Example structure
CONTRIBUTION
What did this person create, maintain, teach, or organize?
COMMUNITY
Which developers or communities benefited from the work?
IMPACT
What changed because of their contribution?
EVIDENCE
Which public projects, resources, talks, or activities demonstrate it?
CodeHarborHub Open Source
Help recognize contributors, maintainers, and community builders.
CodeHarborHub is an open-source developer learning community. Explore the project's public repositories and contributor community to discover people who actively build, document, review, teach, and support others.
Contribution matters
Impact can take many forms.
Recognition does not have to come from one type of contribution. Consider the person's actual public work and community impact.
Open-source projects
Build and maintain projects that solve practical developer or community problems.
Technical education
Create tutorials, documentation, examples, roadmaps, and other learning resources.
Community leadership
Help contributors collaborate, review work, answer questions, and improve community workflows.
Developer advocacy
Share practical knowledge, organize sessions, write technical content, and encourage open-source participation.
FAQ
GitHub Stars nomination questions.
GitHub Stars is a GitHub community program that recognizes people who help others learn about GitHub and open source. Visit GitHub's official Stars page for the current program details and eligibility information.
Recognize open source
Know someone who helps developers thrive?
Explore their public work, gather concrete examples, and use GitHub's official process to put them forward for consideration.
GitHub determines eligibility and final selection according to its program process. Requirements may change over time.2026