Finding an open source project
Finding an open source project
Is there a community/site that organises and lists open source projects?
I want to get into working on open source projects but I have found it difficult to find the projects themselves.
I'd preferably like to be able to filter by project type, tech stack, state of development, active users, and active developers.
Is this an open source project in itself?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I think this is the winner. Pretty much exactly what I wanted. Thank you so much!
While I don't know of any such site, I wouldn't recommend it either.
Open source projects are made by the community, for the community, so I'd recommend you start by helping out one of the projects that you personally use. Maybe you can fix a bug that is bothering you, or implement a functionality that you are missing.
Can I ask why you wouldn't recommend it? I'm open to the possibility that I'm missing something but imo exposure and attention would often be a big hurdle when it comes to open source projects.
Having a repository that lists and describes them doesn't feel like it could be a bad thing to me
I believe what they might mean is if you don't personally use a project, you might not be as committed/passionate about it as someone who uses the software in their daily life and cares about it as a user.
So it's not about finding one with lots of users and dropping in there if it is software you don't care about.
If you are just getting into using open source software though and have yet to find any that are important to you, then you can usually find lists of open source alternatives (from a user perspective) with a search fairly easily to get to better know what is out there and what you might be most interested in. (And lists like that for people to find software like that are generally helpful, I found lots of tools I wouldn't have otherwise known about through peoples collections of favourites/alternatives/etc.!)
I’ve run across a couple sites.
https://www.opensourcealternative.to/
https://github.com/sereneblue/awesome-oss
https://opensourcesoftwaredirectory.com/
https://opensource.com/resources
https://www.techradar.com/best/best-open-source-software
Tangentially related: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
Pretty much the opposite of what you asked for but good to know: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_formerly_open-source_or_free_software
@[email protected] beat me to the punch with alternative.to
That's a great list, thank you for taking the time. I'll look into them all
I have looked for something similar. There are a number of spaces where FOSS project lists are maintained, but they are often focused on a singular topics like 'privacy' or something akin, and they aren't often parts of larger lists that can be sorted based on the conditions you mentioned above.
The closest thing, if you are interested in other possible tools that might help: Alternative.to, a crowdsourced software searching tool, which has a means of filtering to show only, say, open source projects, or sort by tags that denote stacks used, languages used, etc. (see screenshot of tags I added). It has been useful enough for my own needs when looking for what you've been looking for.
Either way, best of luck! I haven't been able to find something yet, myself.
thank you for actually answering the fucking question. good shit.
Oh wow, thank you so much. This sounds perfect, almost exactly what I was imagining
If you're an Android user: scroll through F-Droid, download interesting apps, and then hunt for problems or try to come up with interesting, helpful features. For example, I could really use a live stopwatch widget in: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.best.deskclock/
Google Clock has it, but this app doesn't for some reason.
codeberg, gitlab, github etc.
You can go to those and find a list of public projects and filter by (some of) your criteria.