#opensource (53 links)
- StreetComplete streetcomplete.app
Help improve OpenStreetMap with StreetComplete! This app finds missing map data in your vicinity and displays it on a map as quests. Solve each quest by visiting the location on-site and answering a simple question to update the map.
- AGENTS.md agents.md
A simple, open format for guiding coding agents.
- Whale Fall nesbitt.io
What happens when a large open source project dies.
This is a great software ecosystem/evolution post.
A self-hosted, multi-user digital library with smart shelves, auto metadata, Kobo & KOReader sync, BookDrop imports, OPDS support, and a built-in reader for EPUB, PDF, and comics.
- Ghostty Is Now Non-Profit – Mitchell Hashimoto mitchellh.com
Being non-profit clearly demonstrates our commitment to keeping Ghostty free and open source for everyone. It paves the way for a model for sustainable development beyond my personal involvement. And it also provides important legal protections and assurances to the people and communities that adopt and use Ghostty.
- Ory ory.sh
API-first Identity Management, Authentication and Authorization.
- Open Press Project – The 3D-printed printing press openpressproject.com
The 3D-printed printing press. Designed to make printmaking accessible.
- FOSSmarks fossmarks.org
A practical guide to understanding trademarks in the context of Free and Open Source Software projects.
- For the open core model to work, the OSS product should be standalone and featur... | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com
For the open core model to work, the OSS product should be standalone and featureful. If users feel like it's just used to advertise a commercial product, it doesn't work. And the commercial product should offer value-added services and features that are not strictly required for the base OSS product.
- Organic Maps: Offline Hike, Bike, Trails and Navigation organicmaps.app
- The Asymmetry of Open Source - Matt Holt matt.life
Users need open source projects, but open source projects do not need users. That asymmetry is, I believe, at the crux of the open source sustainability.
- Sandstorm sandstorm.io
<blockquote>Take control of your web by running your own personal cloud server with Sandstorm.</blockquote>
- Open Source Code - Matt Gemmell mattgemmell.com
I strongly encourage releasing reusable portions of your code - it’s the lifeblood of the developer community. Over the years, I’ve put together a set of best practices for releasing open source code, to make life easier partly for yourself but mainly for those who will use your code.
- Forking is a Feature - Anil Dash dashes.com
"Part of the predicate for forks being so disruptive was the idea that there is One True Version — a creation, like a piece of software, a written work, or anything else, that can only be accurately represented by a single ideal expression [...] Until a git named Linus changed that." Worth poking through the comments.
- Paul's Extreme Sound Stretch hypermammut.sourceforge.net
- DiffMerge sourcegear.com
Free, cross-platform diff app.
You didn't write that awful page. You're just trying to get some data out of it. Right now, you don't really care what HTML is supposed to look like. Neither does this parser.
The idea is similar to the notion of Free Software, and like with freeware, the word “free”refers to freedom, not price. Specifically, Free Music means that any individual has the freedom of copying, distributing, and modifying music for personal, noncommercial purposes. Free Music does not mean that record labels and musicians cannot charge for records, tapes, CDs, or files.
- Plupload - A tool for uploading files using Flash, Silverlight, Google Gears, HTML5 or Browserplus plupload.com
Allows you to upload files using HTML5 Gears, Silverlight, Flash, BrowserPlus or normal forms, providing some unique features such as upload progress, image resizing and chunked uploads.
All Ninite does is automatically download and install the apps you select. Not even Ninite is installed.
Open Knowledge Foundation spoke with Robert about the history of the MusicBrainz project, about the role of community, about the way open licensing helps MusicBrainz work, and about the future he sees for music meta data.
- The League of Moveable Type theleagueofmoveabletype.com
only the most well-made, free & open-source, @font-face ready fonts.
- Flowplayer - Flash Video Player for the Web flowplayer.org
An Open Source (GPL 3) video player. Highly skinnable and extendable.
- freesound :: home page freesound.org
A collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds.
- BlimpDuino home page - DIY Drones diydrones.com
A very low cost open source autonomous blimp. It consists of an Arduino-based blimp controller board with on-board infrared and ultrasonic sensors and an interface for an optional RC mode, a simple gondola with two vectoring (tilting) differential thrusters, and ground-based infrared beacon.
- Free Online Barcode Generator terryburton.co.uk
Probably the world's most sophisticated free web-based online barcode generator, based on Barcode Writer in Pure PostScript.
- The World Famous Index of Arduino & Freeduino Knowledge freeduino.org
An evolving index of practical subjects for the Arduinotm and Freeduino microcontrollers
- littleBits littlebits.cc
An opensource library of discrete electronic components pre-assembled in tiny circuit boards. Just as Legos allow you to create complex structures with very little engineering knowledge, littleBits are simple, intuitive, space-sensitive blocks that make prototyping with sophisticated electronics a matter of snapping small magnets together.
- MakerBot Industries - Robots That Make Things. makerbot.com
MakerBot Industries creates open source robot kits that transform your digital designs into physical objects automatically. The kits are modular, modifiable, and built to be hacked.
- NVDA – a free, open source screen reader | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
Hadn't come across this one.
- Buzzmachines.com - Jeskola Buzz free modular software music studio buzzmachines.com
Free modular software based synthesizer. What this means is that the entire system is based on objects, which may be routed in a modular fashion, giving you the freedom to be as creative as you want.
- Unison File Synchronizer cis.upenn.edu
A file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other.
- x0xb0x: Transistorize the World ladyada.net
A full reproduction of the original Roland TB-303 [...] The x0xb0x will never become 'discontinued,' because it is fully documented and released (under an appropriate open-source license). The PCB files (schematic, board, BOM and gerbers), firmware, software and panel DXFs are available for download.
The world is changing. And changing quickly. The web is going to win, filling the market niche where Flash and other similar technologies found their hold.
- Jack OS X - a Jack implementation for Mac OS X jackosx.com
Connecting audio... from any OS X application, to any OS X application
- CIA.vc cia.vc
CIA can send an IRC bot to your channel to instantly report the progress made by you and your peers.
- gelato cms - di molti sapori gelatocms.com
gelato is a tumblelog CMS built on AJAX, PHP and MySQL.
- Main Page - Croquet Consortium croquetconsortium.org
"A powerful open source software development environment for the creation and large-scale distributed deployment of multi-user virtual 3D applications and metaverses that are (1) persistent (2) deeply collaborative, (3) interconnected and (4) interoperabl
- K2 getk2.com
"K2 [...] is the frontend of WordPress. It's main concern is displaying the data fetches through WordPress in the right way at the right time. Furthermore [...] K2 cares about you and is always trying to make sure you are presented with exactly the tools
- Zimbra offers Open Source email server software and shared calendar for Linux and the Mac zimbra.com
Open source messaging and collaboration
- A Swarm of Angels » Remixing cinema aswarmofangels.com
Remix cinema. You can be part of a groundbreaking new project to fund, make, and distribute a £1 million film using the Internet.
- MySource Matrix Open Source CMS - Home matrix.squiz.net
"Open Source Content Management System (CMS) written in PHP". YACMS.
- Rockbox - Open Source Jukebox Firmware rockbox.org
an open source replacement firmware for mp3 players
- Radiant CMS - Content Management Simplified radiantcms.com
A no-fluff, open source content management system designed for small teams.