I love opensource I wish I could support all the creators and I have an idea!

Open source has honestly saved me countless hours headaches and money too. Recently I’ve been relying on so much open source stuff and I keep thinking about how these devs ask for the smallest thing in return like a coffee donation or a star on GitHub or even just a repost. And I feel guilty because I want to give back to all of them but if I start donating to every single project that’s helped me it adds up really quick and then I don’t even know who deserves more or less.

So what if we make an open source creator fund. And in true open source spirit it’s managed by the people. Everyone can donate into one big pot either one time or monthly and then the community votes on which creators or projects should get the support that month. We could have something like a leaderboard for creator of the week or month and they get a payout from the pool. That way active developers and even smaller projects can rise up get some recognition and at least a bit of financial motivation to keep going. It’s a way of collectively paying back the people who keep giving us tools fixes apps libraries and more for free.

I just really like the idea of helping devs who have helped me especially the smaller projects that don’t get much attention. Something like this could keep them alive and motivated instead of fading away. I’d honestly love to be part of it even just helping run it or modding or whatever it takes.

Of course this sort of thing could be misused but that’s why it should be run by trusted people in the community. If someone bigger in the open source scene picked this up I think a lot of us would feel more confident donating into it. If anyone has the resources to make this happen please go for it and count me in.

PS. if something like this already exists my bad drop it in the comments and I’ll support it straight away.

Edit - if this idea ever actually turns into something and goes wrong don’t blame me that’s open source terms baby.

Edit 2 - I have seen the open source initiatives but they are more for bigger companies and bigger budgets and bigger funds I'm talking more small vote driven so different creators and more creators have access to the fund every day and fund their projects and propose ideas which require money and get funded by the people for it. For the people by the people typa initiative. Very community driven.

TLDR - An open source project/fund that would help developers do developing!
(Anyone reading this please upvote my post so it can reach the right people and support our community!)

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First OpenSource attempt : *** Open-ADR *** [NO AI PROJECT]

***DISCLAIMER: NO AI PROJECT***

I’m an SRE and built (let be honest, I fully vibe code...) [Open-ADR](https://openadr.dev) — a minimal tool to browse Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) across your GitHub repos.

Right now it’s super simple:

* Detects ADRs (docs/adr/, docs/decisions/, /adr)
* Shows status + renders markdown (works with [MADR](https://github.com/adr/madr))
* Read-only via GitHub OAuth (no DB, no token leaks)

The idea is to go further with ongoing ADRs: create them from the UI, collaborate via UI using PRs comment as database, supersede, and eventually have org-wide dashboards.

⚠️ This is very experimental — I want to validate if it even makes sense to move forward. Would your team actually use this? What features would make it valuable?

💡 Curious:

* Do you actually keep ADRs alive in your org?
* Would a multi-repo dashboard help you?



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Local LLM Clusters for Long-Term Research
https://github.com/dankeg/KestrelAI

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has brave browser ever been forked?

Has brave browser ever been forked?

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I got hooked on browsing openalternative.co is "Most Popular" list

This list is an absolute gem in finding what are the trending state-of-the-art open source programs. I have found so many cool open source projects I feel addicted to browsing more..

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We did it: DE 🇩🇪 LU 🇱🇺 & SK 🇸🇰 just decided to oppose Chat Control! 🥳

Thanks everyone for your help and keep fighting the good fight. 🫶

Chat Control will not get a majority - at least not today.

Source: https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota/115189867555145166

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[RUST] AppCUI-rs: Powerful & Easy TUI Framework written in Rust
https://github.com/gdt050579/AppCUI-rs

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[Nostr] Hugo2Nostr sync tool
https://github.com/delirehberi/hugo2nostr

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The challenge of maintaining curl
https://lwn.net/Articles/1034966/

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When does it make sense to use a source available license?

I am making a front end package. It’s designed to be easily self hosted. It’s pretty complex I would say it’s taken me anywhere from 1-2000 hours to build. The main business modal I am going for is to charge companies to use it while leaving it free for non-commercial use. As such open source is not really an option.

So I have two choices, keep the code close source or make it source available. I am thinking to make it source available on github as it would help with getting the word out far easier than closed source. Making adoption faster. But the con would be my code is now out in the wild, which is tough for me to swallow at this stage considering the time it took to develop it.

I would appreciate some more advice on this topic.

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I want to start my own organisation and need help with names

I'll first just brief my idea and then I'll put the names. Please suggest which of the names sounds the best.

I want to build an organisation that builds workflow automation tools. Two expansion ideas I have are adding teaching courses and expanding to other forms of software solutions.

I had originally thought of the name Bare Metal. However, I don't want to add any english terms. I believe it would be better to just go with hindi termed naming (for the brand and the products).

To begin, currently, I am purely thinking about working in the open source environment to gain some attraction towards myself (& no monetization) and hence I don't want any intense naming.

These are my name ideas as of now

- Kalpniyat -> Kalpana + niyatam. Imagination + deterministic.
- Netrana -> Netra + prana. Vision + source of life.
- Dhatu -> Element.
- Vigyaan -> Science.

The first two are fused names, which is my primary instinct, combining words. The next two are just direct hindi terms.

Views.

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oq: Terminal OpenAPI Spec viewer
https://github.com/plutov/oq

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oq: Terminal OpenAPI Spec viewer
https://github.com/plutov/oq

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Microsoft, IBM, Google lobbying Linux foundation 🤔



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Does the Microsoft Store accept free apps signed with a SignPath code signing certificate

Hi,

Does the Microsoft Store accept free apps signed with a SignPath code signing certificate ?

from this: https://signpath.org/

Thanks

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The EU Cyber Resilience Act's impact on open source security
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/eu-cyber-resilience-acts-impact-open-source-security

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Droplr equivalent

I've used Droplr for well over a decade at this point .

Not sure when but it was bought at some point and the quality definitely went down hill. I bought a multi year license at some point that expired a while ago but still had access to the product so I put up with the numerous bugs.

It seems they've found it's been a while since I last paid and they're looking to charge me.

There must be an OSS equivalent or at least the screen recorder portion I could then hook up to my own API to produce shareable links.

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Search Apple notes in plain English

I was tired of never finding the right Apple Note because I couldn’t remember exact words. So I built a semantic search tool — type what you mean in plain English, and it finds the note.

I’ve open-sourced it, would love for you to try it out and share feedback! 🙌

https://www.okaysidd.com/semantic

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Open source equivalent of INCI Beauty app

Hey everyone! I'm on the lookout for an OS app similar to the INCI Beauty app. It's essentially an app I use for scanning the barcodes of items, mainly shampoos and toothpaste etc personally, and it gives you a rundown of how much crap is in it or not.

Any os suggestions? I'm mainly keen on the aforementioned features. Cheers! :)

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First time doing open source development

Hi everyone, im a beginner to open source software developing and want to know any projects/repositories I can contribute to.

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Umihi Music, my new Android YouTube Music Player

Hey guys, I just published the first build for my Android YouTube Music Player called Umihi Music. It's similar to InnerTune, ViMusic, SimpMusic and others in the same kind, but I focused on making my app extremely lightweight, fast, simple and reliable. The app is currently very bare-bones, but I am planning to add a bunch of features in the future.

If you're interested in checking it out, here are all the usefull links :

Github : https://github.com/ilianoKokoro/umihi-music/
F-Droid (IzzyDroid) : https://apt.izzysoft.de/packages/ca.ilianokokoro.umihi.music

If you encounter any bugs with the app, please make a GitHub Issue so I can work on making the app better for everyone. I hope you guys enjoy.

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