  Software is the outcome of active and effective communication between members
of an organization. This has been noted with Conway's law, which states that
``organizations design systems that mirror their own communication structure.''
However, software developers are often members of multiple organizational
groups (e.g., corporate, regional,) and it is unclear how association with
groups beyond one's company influence the development process. In this paper,
we study social effects of country by measuring differences in software
repositories associated with different countries. Using a novel dataset we
obtain from GitHub, we identify key properties that differentiate software
repositories based upon the country of the developers. We propose a novel
approach of modeling repositories based on their sequence of development
activities as a sequence embedding task and coupled with repo profile features
we achieve 79.2% accuracy in identifying the country of a repository. Finally,
we conduct a case study on repos from well-known corporations and find that
country can describe the differences in development better than the company
affiliation itself. These results have larger implications for software
development and indicate the importance of considering the multiple groups
developers are associated with when considering the formation and structure of
teams.
