Thanks for sharing here Dharhas!
This is a big topic, so I thought to kick things off I would make a suggestion. I created a PR to the JupyterLab git repo that attempts to give a narrative history of the contributors to it:
I have left off the particular company who funded our work at Quansight from it initially, since we have not checked in with them yet on the idea. However, I wanted to put it out there to get feedback from the larger community on whether adding a “history” section to the README is a good way to highlight the different people and organizations who have supported a project. Obviously, it’s easier for newer projects like an extension, and might be too long and complicated for a project like JupyterLab.