A curated list of tools and resources that can be found useful by open source software maintainers.
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- Guides
- Documentation Tools, Helpers And Publishers
- Project Promotion
- Funding And Finance Management
- Project Management
- Talks, Blog Posts And Interviews
- Guides By GitHub - A collection of resources for individuals, communities, and companies.
- Documentation By Google - A copy of our internal open source documentation of Google, with a few exceptions.
- Guides By TODO Group - Developed by the TODO Group in collaboration with The Linux Foundation and the larger open source community.
- Guides For The Enterprise By Linux Foundation - Leverage best practices for starting and running an open source project in your organization.
- One Community - Resources and solutions for all aspects of sustainable and globally-regenerative living.
- Choose a license - Helps you to choose a license.
- Documentation by Zalando - For Zalando employees, on how to adopt, modify and release Open Source code.
- CHAOSS - A Linux Foundation project focused on creating analytics and metrics to help define community health.
- Best Practices by 10up - This guide is written with groups releasing smaller-scale open source software in mind.
- Keep A Changelog - A guide to create a changelog file.
- Make a README - A tool for creating a cool README file.
- Contributor Covenant - A ready-to-use Code of Conduct for open source projects.
- Docusaurus By Facebook - Docusaurus makes it easy to maintain documentation websites.
- Read the Docs - Documentation by automating building, versioning, and hosting of your docs for you.
- GitHub Pages - Websites hosted directly from your GitHub repository.
- Write the Docs - A global community of people who care about documentation.
- MkDocs - Project documentation with Markdown.
- Feedmereadmes - A README Help Exchange.
- Promote Open Source Project - Summarizes important steps you should follow to promote your project.
- Awesome Linux Software - A collection of AWESOME Linux applications and tools.
- Hackernoon - An Independent Tech Media Site.
- Hacker News - Website focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship.
- Open Source on Reddit - A subreddit for everything open source related.
- Up For Grabs - A list of projects which have curated tasks specifically for new contributors.
- CodeTriage - A communutiy tool to gather maintainers and possible contributors.
- First Timers Only - A community tool for listing very easy issues to get the first timers to the project.
- 24 Pull Requests - The site suggests open projects, highlights tickets that are good for new contributors.
- FixMe - A platform maintained by the Open Source Students Network affiliated to Mozilla.
- Open Funding - A guide for researching ways of funding projects.
- Open Collective - A transparent process that everyone can donate and track the money.
- xs:code - Turn your project into a revenue source while keeping your code free.
- IssueHunt - A platform for owners and contributors to get financial support.
- Flattr - Provides subscriptions that you divide between the creators you want to support.
- GitHub Sponsors - GitHub Sponsors is generally available to developers and projects with bank accounts in many countries.
- Tidelift - Keep your open source dependencies trouble-free and enterprise-ready.
- Jitsi - A video conferencing tool.
- Taiga - A project management tool for multi-functional agile teams.
- Matrix - An open standard and lightweight protocol for real-time communication.
- Awesome Maintainers - An AweSome list of talks, blog posts, and interviews about the experience of being an open source maintainer.