Finding something to work on¶

• Open Source Guides — the best single starting point for contributing and maintaining
• Good First Issue — curated beginner-friendly issues
• First Contributions — practice the fork/branch/PR workflow
• Up For Grabs — projects with tasks for new contributors
• This Week in Rust — Call for Participation — weekly list of Rust issues looking for help

Licensing¶

• choosealicense.com — plain-English license chooser
• OSI license list
• FSF license list with commentary
• SPDX License List
• REUSE

Project setup and security¶

• Contributor Covenant
• Keep a Changelog
• Semantic Versioning
• Conventional Commits
• Developer Certificate of Origin
• OpenSSF Scorecard
• OpenSSF Best Practices Badge
• Sigstore

History and philosophy¶

• The GNU Manifesto — Richard Stallman (1985) — gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar — Eric S. Raymond (1997)
• Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution — Steven Levy (1984)
• Free as in Freedom — Sam Williams (2002), a biography of Stallman, free online
• Just for Fun — Linus Torvalds and David Diamond (2001)
• Rebel Code — Glyn Moody (2001)
• Producing Open Source Software — Karl Fogel, free at producingoss.com
• Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software — Nadia Eghbal (2020)
• Revolution OS (2001 documentary)
• The Halloween Documents, annotated by ESR