GitHub users in Spain: an geospatial analysis

Measuring and ranking the free software developers in a particular geographical space is a way
of knowing the existing community and also allows assessing the impact of certain policies in
the dynamics of such a community. Besides, it is interesting to try and find out why there are
differences from one place to the next and how these differences evolve with time. In this paper,
our main interest is to measure and rank the community of free software developers in Spain and
also check its geographical distribution. This paper measures differences by province, providing a
classification of provinces according to the number and type of developers present in each place.