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The list of tools and resources that can be found useful by open source project maintainers.

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Project Promotion

  • 24 Pull Requests

    The site suggests open projects, highlights tickets that are good for new contributors.

  • Awesome Linux Software

    A collection of AWESOME Linux applications and tools.

  • 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.

  • FixMe

    A platform maintained by the Open Source Students Network affiliated to Mozilla.

  • Hacker News

    Website focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship.

Talks, Blog Posts And Interviews

Guides

  • Best Practices by 10up

    This guide is written with groups releasing smaller-scale open source software in mind.

  • CHAOSS

    A Linux Foundation project focused on creating analytics and metrics to help define community health.

  • Choose a license

    Helps you to choose a license.

  • Documentation By Google

    A copy of our internal open source documentation of Google, with a few exceptions.

  • Documentation by Zalando

    For Zalando employees, on how to adopt, modify and release Open Source code.

  • Guides By GitHub

    A collection of resources for individuals, communities, and companies.

Documentation Tools, Helpers And Publishers

Funding And Finance Management

  • 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.

  • IssueHunt

    A platform for owners and contributors to get financial support.

  • Open Collective

    A transparent process that everyone can donate and track the money.

  • Open Funding

    A guide for researching ways of funding projects.

  • xs:code

    Turn your project into a revenue source while keeping your code free.

Project Management

  • Jitsi

    A video conferencing tool.

  • Matrix

    An open standard and lightweight protocol for real-time communication.

  • Taiga

    A project management tool for multi-functional agile teams.

  • Tidelift

    Keep your open source dependencies trouble-free and enterprise-ready.

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