Most active GitHub users (git.io/top)
The count of contributions (summary of Pull Requests, opened issues and commits) to public repos at GitHub.com from Sun, 19 Apr 2015 17:59:08 GMT till Tue, 19 Apr 2016 17:59:08 GMT.
Only first 1000 GitHub users according to the count of followers are taken. This is because of limitations of GitHub search. Sorting algo in pseudocode:
githubUsers
.filter(user => user.followers > 11)