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awesome-open-source
A curated list of resources related to how to do open source projects
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- OSI approved licenses - Canonical list of open source software licenses approved by the Open Source Initiative (OSI)
- Annotated Open Source Definition - The definition of open source which is the base for the OSI license list, with rationales
- Creative Commons - Open licenses for non-code such as documentation or artwork
- Choose an open source license - Simple license chooser to help you choosing a license for your project
- Joinup Licensing Assistant - Tool to find open source licenses based on desired conditions and compare them regarding compatibility
- Open Source License Compendium (OSLic) - Compendium with instructions how to fulfill obligations of open source licenses
- Open Source License Compliance Handbook - Detailed guideline how to comply to a large selection of open source licenses
- Open Source License Checklists - Formal machine-readable representations of obligations of many open source licenses
- TLDRLegal - Summary of licenses in plain English
- Making Your Code Available Under An Open Source Licence - Overview of how to choose and apply open source licenses
- Open source licenses: What, which, and why - Overview of the most important Open Source licenses and what they mean
- copyleft.org - Detailed information about the GPL and other copyleft licenses
- GPL Cooperation Commitment - Pledge to cooperatively solve GPL v2 violations
- The MIT License, Line by Line - A very thorough explanation of the MIT license
- License Center - Categorized list of open source, open content, open data, open hardware licenses
- Universal License List - Aggregated list of licenses encountered by a combination of scanning tools
- Scancode LicenseDB - Extensive list of licenses with meta data such as SPDX identifiers, classification, and links to text representations
- Open source needs to clean up its language - Article about how classification of licenses could be worded better
- Delayed Open Source Publication - History and practice of using licenses which give open source rights with a delay, e.g. the BUSL
- Beyond Open Data: The Only Good License Is No License - Open licensing of data
- Contributor License Agreement and Developer Certificate of Origin references - Many links to material about CLA, DCO, FLA and related information
- Why CLAs aren't good for open source - Article with an argument against CLAs (with a counter-argument in the comments)
- Contributor Agreements - Information and a tool to create contributor agreements
- DCO - Developer certificate of origin used by the Linux Kernel and other projects
- Model Trademark Guidelines - Guidelines for open source projects how to write trademark guidelines
- Open Usage Commons - Organisation for holding trademarks for open source projects
- Open Invention Network - Defensive patent pool and community to protect open source from patent threats
- OpenChain Project - Project to define, support, and certify open source compliance programs
- Balanced Employee IP Agreement - Reusable agreement which makes sure employees keep the rights on side projects they do not do as part of their job
- Open Source Casebook - Legal analysis of key legal topics in open source, including primary sources
- Understanding US export controls with open source projects - Whitepaper on what to consider regarding export control regulation which might affect open source projects
- EU Export Control Regime and Free Software - Analysis of European export control rules and how to comply with them
- Journal of Open Law, Technology & Society - Free legal journal covering issues in the realm of openness, in particular open source software
- The International FOSS Law Book - Background of how open source is seen from the point of view of legal systems in different countries
- Guidelines on the acquisition and reuse of software for public administrations - Guidelines for acquiring open source software in Italy
- The Cathedral and the Bazaar - Influential paper by Eric Raymond from 1997 laying out the principles of open source
- Contempt Culture - Advice about how to create a healthy and respectful culture, explained at the example of contempt towards other programming languages
- Open Source Diversity - List of information, projects, and other resources supporting more diversity and inclusion in open source communitites
- What is open? - Beyond open source software, what is open data and content?
- Open Advice - Answers the question what 42 prominent contributors would have liked to know when they started with open source
- Awesome Maintainers - Open source maintainers talking about maintaining open source projects
- The role of a maintainer - Best pratices for open source maintainers
- The Open Source Contributor Funnel - A model how people become contributors to open source projects
- The Open Source Software Developer Career and Its Benefits - A model for how developers progress in open source projects and what does this mean for their career
- Contributor Covenant - Popular code of conduct which can easily be adapted to most projects
- Ubuntu Code of Conduct - The Ubuntu code of conduct which has been the base for several other code of conducts
- KDE Community Code of Conduct - A code of conduct stressing pragmatism and mutual support
- Open Source Archetypes - Framework for classifying options how to run open source projects
- Open Source Survey - Survey ran by GitHub from 2017 about open source development practices and communities
- Open Source Governance Models - Collection of data about open source governance models
- On Consensus and Humming in the IETF - Article about rough consensus which is a pattern used in many open source projects in some way
- Sustainable Free and Open Source Community - Principles of sustainable open source communities and overview of possible open source business models
- Sustain - Group of people, events, and material about sustainability of open source projects
- Open Governance - Checklist and some pointers regarding open governance in context of open source
- Determining the True Openness of Open Source Projects - Definition of areas how to make an open source project, including best and worst practices
- Minimum Viable Governance - A minimum governance model template
- The Four Opens - Example of an open governance model
- Four Levels Of Open - Another definition of openness beyond the openness of the license
- Governance Game - Card game to explore governance of open source projects in the public sector
- Open Governance Index - Study from 2011 analyzing openness of governance for 8 big open source projects
- Contributions and credit policy for open source projects - Guide on how to write contribution and credit policies
- 'Rough Consensus and Running Code' and the Internet-OSI Standards War - How governance of early Internet standards evolved
- Measuring Engagement - Study by Mozilla about how responsiveness affects contributions
- Open Source Guides - Collection of resources about how to run and contribute to an open source projects
- The Art of Community - Standard reading on community management
- Five Pillars of Building Developer Communities at HashiCorp - How to build a community
- Open Leadership Training Series - Best practices of working open
- Producing Open Source Software - Book about how to run an open source project
- Seven questions to steer open source project community development - Checklist with questions how to position open source projects
- All Contributors - Specification and automation to recognize all contributors, not only code contributors
- OpenDRI & GeoNode: A Case Study for Institutional Investments in Open Source - Case study how building a community around an open source project created a 200% return on investment
- Social Architecture - Book about building open source communities
- Public Issue Tracker Behaviors - List of bad behaviors in issue trackers you better avoid
- REUSE - Specification and tools to declare copyright and license in open source software
- How and why to properly write copyright statements in your code - Guide how to write copyright statement including legal background
- Semantic Versioning - Popular release versioning scheme reflecting what kind of changes are in a release
- Keep a changelog - Guidelines for maintaining a changelog
- Contributing Template - Template for contribution guidelines
- How to Write a Git Commit Message - Comprehensive resource about how to write great commit messages
- Conventional Commits - Conventions for writing structured commit messages which also can be read by machines
- Code Review Developer Guide - Google's code review guidelines
- How the top 100 projects on GitHub do user support - Study about how open source projects do user support
- disclose.io - Standardized best practices for security issue disclosures
- First Timers Only - Introduction how to start with open source contributions with links to projects helping with that
- First Contributions - Playground for learning the GitHub contribution process by doing it at an example
- How students can get started contributing to open source software - Overview of programs for students to get started with open source
- 20+ Open Source Internship Programs that you can Apply to - List of open source mentorship and internship programs
- Google's Summer of Code - Large open source mentoring program organized by Google
- Outreachy - Mentoring program focused on supporting diversity
- Season of KDE - Mentoring program for volunteers in the KDE community
- Stackalytics - Open source tool providing contribution statistics used by OpenStack and others
- Bitergia - Open source contribution metrics
- Open Source Contributor Index - Statistics about the top contributing companies on GitHub
- Swiss OSS Benchmark - Statistics about Swiss Institutions developing open source software on GitHub
- How to write documentation that's actually useful - Tips how to write good documentation
- Beautiful docs - Lists of examples of great documentation and tools to generate documentation
- Awesome README - A curated list of awesome READMEs
- You are what you document - Guides and good examples for all kinds of documentation
- What I learned from an old GitHub project that won 3000 starts in a weeek - Case study of successfully marketing an open source project
- afs.one - Directory of successful use of open source software
- Nadya Eghbal's "Lemonade Stand" - A comprehensive list of funding methods for open source projects
- Open Source Software Funding Platforms Registry - List of platforms for funding open source software development
- Open Collective - Open source platform for managing and connecting projects, fiscal sponsors, and financial contributors
- Decentralized funding? An analysis of three programs - Analysis of some programs to fund open source development in an open and decentralized way through development grants
- COSSI: Commercial Open Source Software Company Index - List of companies which make more than million USD revenue from open source software
- FOSS Contributor Fund - Framework for selecting projects a company supports financially
- Software Heritage - The universal software [archive](https://archive.softwareheritage.org/)
- GitHub - Largest code hosting site
- Scaling from 2,000 to 25,000 engineers on GitHub at Microsoft - Detailed report about how to scale an organization on GitHub with pointers to tools and best practices
- GitLab - Code hosting site whose code is available as open source under an open core model
- Savannah - Code hosting site for the GNU project and other free software projects
- Codeberg - Code hosting platform for Free and Open Source Software run by a non-profit community as alternative to commercial platforms
- Mailman - Popular open source mailing list software
- Discourse - Open source forum software
- IRC - The chat tool originally used by a lot of open source communities
- Jitsi - Open source video conferencing
- BigBlueButton - Open source web conferencing system also used for virtual conferences
- Awesome OSS Management - List of packages and projects helpful for managing open source projects and offices
- Open Source Guides for the Enterprise - Resources for running an open source program office
- Open Source Program Offices: The Primer on Organizational Structures, Roles and Responsibilities, and Challenges - Comprehensive overview about how Open Source Program Offices work
- TODO Group - Group of practioners of open source management, initiated by the Linux Foundation
- OSPO Alliance - Group of practioners of open source management, initiated by the Eclipse Foundation
- Open Source Management Training - Free online course from the Linux Foundation about managing open source programs in the enterprise
- Open Source in the Enterprise - Mini-book with guidelines for enterprises how to use and create open source software
- Principles for industrial Open Source - Large collection of patterns how to improve management of open source in an organization
- OSPO Definition - Definition of an Open Source Program Office and what it does (addressing Fear, Love, and Money)
- Open Source Observatory (OSOR) - Site from the European Commission about open source in public administration
- Open Source Policy Examples and Templates - Collection of published open source policies
- FINOS Open Source Readiness - Material about managing open source with a focus on the financial sector
- Good Governance Initiative - Framework for building open source management in an organization
- SPDX - Standards to represent and communicate license information
- Tooling Ecosystem working with SPDX - Extensive list of tools working with SPDX information
- Software Bill of Materials - Explanations and examples about what a Sotware Bill of Materials is and how it's used
- Awesome SBOM - List of materials about SBOMs
- Cyclone DX - Standard for SBOM information
- Tooling Ecosystem working with CycloneDX - Extensive list of tolls working with CycloneDX information
- Clearly Defined - Project of the Open Source Initiative to get clearly defined license data for open source projects
- OSSelot - Curated database of SBOMs and compliance artifacts for open source projects
- Open Source License Compliance in Software Supply Chains - Article about what to consider when making sure products based on open source are compliant to the open source licenses
- Blue Oak Council - Resources around legal licensing questions, focused on permissive licenses
- OpenSSF Best Practices Badge Program - The Open Source Security Foundation's self-certification program for demonstrating adherence to best open source practices
- How you know your Free of Open Source Software Project is doomed to FAIL - Tom Callaway's famous post about what not to do when running an open source project
- What does a sustainable open source project look like? - Criteria of what makes an open source project sustainable
- Methodologies for measuring project health - What are meaningful metrics for measuring health of a project?
- Community Health Analytics Open Source Software (CHAOSS) - Project to define metrics for community health
- How to Select Open Source Components - Selection criteria for open source components
- Open Source Project Criticatility Score - Project and tool to quantify criticality of open source projects
- fosstars-rating-core - Framework for defining ratings for open source projects
- Open Source Insights - Tool to show details about dependencies of open source packages
- publiccode.yml - Standard to express meta data for a repository, used in code for public administration
- The Rights-Ratchet Model - Description of risks with license changes in single-vendor projects
- endoflife.date - Collection of life cycle information of many projects
- FLOSS Foundations - Directory of Free and Open Source Software foundations
- Growing Open Source Projects with a Stable Foundation - Primer about the role of foundations in the open source ecosystem
- Free Software Froundation (FSF) - Organization behind the GNU project, including the family of GNU Public Licenses
- Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) - European organization advocating for Free Software
- Open Source Initiative (OSI) - Organization stewarding the Open Source Definition
- Linux Foundation - Organization supporting open source communities and industries through governance, events, and training
- Apache Software Foundation - Organization providing home and governance to a large set of open source projects, including the Apache HTTP Server
- Eclipse Foundation - Organization home to the Eclipse IDE and hundreds of other projects in domains such as IoT and others
- Umbrella Organizations - List of organizations acting as umbrella organizations for open source projects
- Software Freedom Conservancy - Non-profit organization supporting open source communities in legal matters
- Software in the Public Interest - Non profit organization acting as fiscal sponsor to many open source projects
- Commons Conservancy - Umbrella organization for open source projects, based in Europe
- NumFOCUS - Umbrella organization for open source scientific compute projects
- OASIS Open Projects - Program to support projects bringing together open source and open standards
- foss.events - Collection of Free and Open Source Software events
- LWN.net Community Calendar - Calendar tracking events, such as conferences, relevant to the open source community
- List of Free Software events - Detailed list of events related to open source
- FOSDEM - Biggest open source developer event in Europe, taking place each February in Brussels
- Open Source Summit - Linux Foundation's main event
- OSCON - O'Reilly's now discontinued commercial open source conference
- Linuxtag - Now discontinued annual event which was instrumental in making open source popular
- Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure - Extensive report about the challenges of maintaining open source as digital infrastructure
- TheFLOSSary - Glossary of Free/Libre and Open Source Software related terms, reusable in LaTeX documents
- The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software - Report about study how contributing to open source projects allows companies to capture more value form using these projects
- Socio-technical research using data excavation lab (STRUDEL) - Collection of research about topics such as sustainability and diversity in open source
- Guiding Development of Contribution and Community Strategies in Open Source Software Requirements Engineering - Research and guidance about what to share and contribute in an open source community as corporation
- The impact of open source software and hardware on technological independence, competitiveness and innovation in the EU economy - Study about economic impact of open source in Europe
- Open Source Program Survey - Survey by TODO Group about open source adoption and open source programs
- The State of Enterprise Open Source - RedHat report about relevance of open source in enterprises
- Open Source Survey - GitHub's survey about open source development
- Revolution OS - Documentary film about the history of free software, open source, and Linux from 2001
- A Brief History of Free, Open Source Software and Its Communities - Short overview of early open source communities and foundations
- Inner Source
- InnerSource Commons - Community of practitioniers of Inner Source
- InnerSource Commons Spring Online Summit 2020 - Recordings of the talks from the InnerSource Commons Conferene in spring 2020
- Adopting InnerSource - Book with case studies about how companies are doing Inner Source
- Europace's journey to InnerSource - An example how you can do Inner Source by conducting experiments based on basic Inner Soure principles
- The Inevitability of InnerSource - Inner Source in a nutshell, explaining what it is and why it's so powerful
- Inner Source from a Financial Compliance Perspective - Explanation of Inner Source from an economic point of view
- InnerSource Patterns - Tactics of applying Inner Source methodologies in the format of common patterns
- The Business Impact of Inner Source and How to Quantify it - Research about how to look at the impact of Inner Source
- CC0
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