Finding an open source project (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by SomethingBlack@lemmy.world to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

40 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] mocoma@lemm.ee 14 points 3 days ago

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.

[-] SomethingBlack@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

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

[-] CheesyLaZanya@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

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.!)

[-] SomethingBlack@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

That's a reasonable stance and I do agree.

I was about to say "but what if I'm just not yet using a project that I would otherwise be passionate about because I don't know it exists", but you've basically gone over that in the rest of your comment. So thank you

load more comments (1 replies)

load more comments (21 replies)