By focusing on the developer experience, GitHub made open source much more about people than projects, in what developer Mikeal Rogers calls the “amateurization of open source,” where “pushing code became almost as routine as tweeting”: I’ve been contributing to open source projects for over 10 years, but what’s different now is that I’m not a “member” of these projects – I’m just a “user,” and contributing a little is a part of being a user.41
