We've got some electrifying news to share—brace yourselves for the grand reveal of our GitHub Awards 2023! 🌟 This is no ordinary announcement; it's a celebration of YOU and your incredible contributions to the developer community.

We announced the award winners at GitHub Universe 2023, but check out the blog post for a recap for those that missed it or want to relive the excitement!

Here are the categories below:

Open Source Awards

Wonderfully Welcoming Award

The Wonderfully Welcoming Award recognizes people or projects that have been the most welcoming and has seen an increasing amount of contributors. Congratulations to the Python Software Foundation!

Noteworthy Newcomer Award

The Noteworthy Newcomer Award recognizes people or projects that are creating and sharing breakthrough contributions/projects. Congratulations to LangChain!

Global Grandiose Award

The Global Grandiose Award recognizes projects that have a large global community of contributors. Congratulations to Storybook!

Hardware Hacker Award

The Hardware Hacker Award recognizes people or projects contributing to making hardware accessible through open specs/software. Congratulations to Limor "Ladyada" Fried (@LadyADA)!

Supply Chain Sentinel Award

The Supply Chain Sentinel Award recognizes a community member part of an advisory who has contributed to make the software supply chain more secure, by finding, disclosing, or fixing security vulnerabilities in open source projects or in supply chain tooling, or by providing information on known vulnerabilities to the ecosystem. Congratulations to Alexander Brandes (@notmyfault)!

Audience Choice Award

The Audience Choice Award recognizes a project that has been voted by developers as a project that has helped them create an impact. Check out the Winner here!

Did you vote when you registered for GitHub Universe? Then your vote counted 🎉

Education Awards

Lighthouse Award

The Lighthouse Award recognizes students who lead fellow learners by shining a light to their communities through open source. Congratulations to Jaisal Patel (@GhostOf0days)!

Did you know that their contributions in this community were highlighted? 🌟

Empowering Educator Award

The Empowering Education Award recognizes educators and teachers who provide support and answers to fellow members of their communities. Congratulations to Catherine Leung (@catherine-leung)!

Phenomenal Education Partner Award

The Phenomenal Education Partner Award recognizes GitHub Education partners that provide strong support and opportunities for students, teachers, and schools. Congratulations to Appwrite!

Customer Awards

OSPO Leadership Award

The OSPO Leadership Award recognizes Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs) who have demonstrated that it's not only possible to innovate in the enterprise by focusing on open source, it's essential. Congratulations to Mercedes Benz!

DevOps Champion Award

The DevOps Champion Award recognizes GitHub’s brightest customer champions who have shared their best-in-class stories and thought leadership. This award spotlights how they have transformed their developer organizations, enabling our community to learn from their insights and apply these learnings back to their own GitHub journey. Congratulations to Katie Peters!

GitHub for Good Award

The GitHub for Good Award recognizes a nonprofit or social sector organization who has leveraged GitHub for good to empower developers to make a positive difference in the world. Congratulations to Ersilia!

GitHub Stars Awards

Star of the Year Award

The GitHub Star of the Year Award recognizes the GitHub Star that has made a huge impact to the developer community—from growing developer communities from the ground up, helping users get started in open source, and being incredibly welcoming and supporting the community. Congratulations to Emanuele Bartolesi (@kasuken)!

Top Teacher Award

The Top Teacher Award recognizes the Star who thrives on educating, inspiring, and helping everyone grow and nurturing communities. Congratulations to Barbara Forbes (@Ba4bes)!

Community Growth Award

The Community Growth Award recognizes the GitHub Star who grows and nurtures communities around them, whether it’s an OSS project or a developer community, and brings everyone together. Congratulations to Miguel Ángel Durán García (@midudev)!

Open Source Advocacy Award

The Open Source Advocacy Award recognizes the GitHub Star that has helped users get started and built up communities using open source. Congratulations to Ruth Ikegah (@Ruth-ikegah)!

We believe in recognizing and applauding the outstanding efforts of our community members. Tell your fellow community members, rally your friends, and let's make some noise!

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