# From 500 to 5,000 open-source contributors by next Accelerate

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-06-09
- **Theme:** Other — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/other/
- **Source:** Akash Accelerate '24: Official Recap (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 03:58:44 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVYeAVvuNLI&t=14324s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/other/2024-06-09-from-500-to-5-000-open-source-contributors-by-next-z5gm/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "From 500 to 5,000 open-source contributors by next Accelerate," Akash Accelerate '24: Official Recap (Akash Network), 9 Jun 2024, 03:58:44. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVYeAVvuNLI&t=14324s

## Quote — verbatim

> We have enormous community — about 500 open source devs now contributing to Akash. We want to make that 5,000 by the time we have the next Accelerate.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Closing AMA, explaining what "accelerate" means: "we've come from 0 to 1 so far and now we need to go from 1 to 100."