Berkeley is #1 university open source contributor

2018 Octoverse Report of open source contributions by institution

UC Berkeley is the top ranked university in the third annual Octoverse Report list of “Open source contributions made by employees of different organizations,” with 2700 contributions.  Berkeley is the fourth ranked organization overall–after Microsoft, Google, and Red Hat.  The Octoverse Report is a roundup of GitHub data across global repositories from the last 12 months.  Four other universities made the top ten:  the University of Washington  (6th place with 1800 contributions), MIT (8th place with 1700), UMich and Stanford (tied 9th with 1600 contributions each) .