Awesome Open Source

The Resources

Quick Start

Projects for New Contributors - A collection of projects that have a history and reputation for being welcoming to new contributors.
Open Source Programs — A detailed list of paid and unpaid open source programs and internships.
Open Source Guides - A collection of guides that will teach you how to launch and grow your open-source project.
Tools for Open Source - A collection of software to make running your open source project a little bit easier.

Countries Collections

Made in Nigeria — A curation of awesome tools built by Nigerians 🇳🇬.
Made in Kenya — A curation of awesome tools built by Kenyans 🇰🇪.
Made in Ghana — A curation of awesome tools built by Ghanaians 🇬🇭.
Made in Zambia — A curation of awesome tools built by Zambians 🇿🇲.
Made in Cameroon — A curation of awesome tools built by Cameroonians 🇨🇲.

Useful Tools

Awesome Open Source - Find and compare 326,000+ open source projects.
Open Sauced - An intelligence platform for OSS developers and maintainers with deep insights.
FossFox OSS Jobs - Work with open-source and get paid for it by finding products hiring engineering talent.
Open Collective - Manage your finances so everyone can see where money comes from and where it goes.
CodeTriage - Personalized OSS issues delivered directly to your inbox.
Good First Issue - A collection of easy pickings from popular OSS projects.
Good First Issues - Find great OSS projects, discover issues and repositories with good first issue and help wanted labels.
Up For Grabs - A list of projects which have curated tasks specifically for new contributors.
First Contributions - A hands-on tutorial that walks you through contributions workflow on GitHub.
Contributor Ninja - A platform to find GitHub issues in several languages.
Gauger - Find beginner friendly OSS projects to work on.
24 Pull Requests - A collection of OSS projects tickets that are good for new contributors and guides for contributing.
Issue Hub - Contribute to open source by searching issue labels to find the right project for you.
Pull Request Roulette - A list of pull requests submitted for review, belonging to open source projects hosted on GitHub.

COSS, Funding, and Support

Sequoia’s Open Source Fellowship - A fellowship to support OSS creators with projects that have real-world adoption.
OSS Capital — An early-stage VC exclusively dedicated to backing leading COSS (commercial open source) startup founders.
Awesome OSS Monetization — A curated list of awesome monetization approaches for open-source software.
10 Funding Opportunities For Your Open Source Project — A reference guide on how to get the community to fund your OSS project.
COSS Playbook — Steps and considerations to create a commercial open source business.
The Sovereign Tech Fund — STF supports the development, improvement, and maintenance of open digital infrastructure with the goal of sustainably strengthening the open-source ecosystem.
Fellowship for Maintainers — A pilot program to pay maintainers of critical open-source technologies.

Infrastructure Support

Communities

Articles

Books

Podcasts

Sustain Podcast - Sustain brings together practitioners, sustainers, funders, researchers and maintainers of the open source ecosystem to talk about the health and sustainability of the open source community.
Command Line Heroes - Epic true tales of how developers, programmers, hackers, geeks, and open source rebels are revolutionizing the technology landscape.
The README Podcast- A look behind the scenes of the most impactful open source projects and the developers who make them happen.
FLOSS Weekly - Free Libre Open Source Software with talks with the most interesting and important people in the Open Source and Free Software community.
The Open Source Way - The difference, value or drop that open source can be.
The Changelog Podcast - Conversations with the hackers, leaders, and innovators of the software world.
LINUX Unplugged - Weekly Linux open show about the best attributes of open collaboration.
Linux Weekly Daily Wednesday - A weekly dose of all thing Linux and open source with a slice of Pi for good measure.
The Craft Of Open Source - A bi-weekly show focused on the ins and outs of the Open Source Software Community.
Open Source For Business - Interviews with some of the world's top experts that sit at the intersection of business and open source.
Open Source Voices - Highlighting the voice and lives of people who are building the future with open source.
Free as in Freedom - A bi-weekly discussion of legal, policy, and other issues in the open-source and software freedom community.
Open Source Underdogs - A podcast for entrepreneurs about open-source software.
Open Source Creative - A weekly podcast about creativity, process, and open source software.
The Binary Times Audiocast - Linux and open-source tips, tricks, and discussion.
FLOSS For Science - Interviews with scientists who are using or developing free and libre open-source software.

Videos

Courses

Conferences

Speaker Decks

Contributing

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Contributing

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