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Feb 12 - Feb 18, 2024

Open Source Projects

• Neovim - Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability.

• PHPStan - PHP static analyzer.

• Termux - Android terminal emulator.

• Kitbashery - 3D kitbashing solution & CC0 model library.

Open Source Projects / Libraries

• ApexCharts - JavaScript charts library.

Jan 22 - Jan 28, 2024

Open Source Projects

• Bottles - Easily manage and run Windows apps on Linux.

• OptiKey, #2 - Full computer control and speech with your eyes.

• Sonic Pi - Code-based music creation and performance tool.

Open Source Projects / Operating Systems

• PostmarketOS - A real Linux distribution for phones.

Jun 12 - Jun 18, 2023

Open Source Projects

• NewPipe - FLOSS video player on Android for services like YouTube, Soundcloud etc.

Open Source Projects / Messaging and social media

• Nitter, #2, #3 - Free and open source Twitter client focused on privacy.

Open Source Projects / Libraries

• Iced, #2 - A cross-platform GUI library for Rust, inspired by Elm.

Open Source Projects / Hardware related

• Martin Povišer - Reverse-engineering and writing Linux drivers for audio hardware on Apple Silicon Macs.

Other kinds of content / Articles and Tutorials

• Boiling Steam, #2 - Linux gaming news, reviews, guides.

• GamingOnLinux - articles and videos about Linux, Steam Deck, SteamOS gaming.

Dec 19 - Dec 25, 2022

Open Source Projects / Games

• Fheroes2 - Free Heroes of Might and Magic II engine.

• Heroic Games Launcher, #2, #3 - Open source GOG and Epic Games launcher.

• MelonDS - Nintendo DS emulator.

Dec 12 - Dec 18, 2022

Open Source Projects / Messaging and social media

• Retrospring, #2, #3 - A social network following the Q/A (question and answer) principle.

Jul 18 - Jul 24, 2022

Open Source Projects

• Firezone - Self-hosted VPN server using WireGuard.

May 30 - Jun 05, 2022

Open Source Projects

• Xfce #2 - Desktop environment for UNIX-like operating systems.

• Zig #2 - System programming language which prioritizes robustness, optimality, and clarity.

Open Source Projects / Games

• Cemu - Nintendo Wii U emulator.

• Xemu - Xbox emulator.

Open Source Projects / Hardware related

• Geoffrey D. Bennett - Linux Focusrite Scarlett software.

People Doing Open Source Work / Hardware related

• Povilas Kanapickas - X server, Buildbot CI, Barrier and many others.

May 16 - May 22, 2022

Open Source Projects / Open Source Art

• Alexandre Prokoudine, #2 - GIMP contributor, editor of Libre Graphics World online magazine.

• Andrea Ferrero - Developer of PhotoFlow image editor, maintains various Appimage packages.

• Duduf - Tools for animations and motion pictures production.

• Inochi2D - Opensource editor and libraries for realtime 2D puppet animation and rendering, e.g. VTubers.

• Marc Jeanmougin - Inkscape contributor.

• Morevna Project - Various contributions to open source animation tools and animated shorts sources released under CC.

• Øyvind Kolås, #2 - Lead developer of babl & GEGL libraries used in the graphics editor GIMP.

• Pablo Dobarro - Sculpting improvements for Blender.

• Tavmjong Bah - Working on Inkscape vector graphics editor.

• ZeMarmot, #2, #3 - 2D animation film project to be released under CC. GIMP contributions from Jehan Pagès, art and direction by Aryeom Han.

Open Source Projects / Hardware related

• Damien Maguire - Electric vehicle projects.

• Espruino - JavaScript interpreter for microcontrollers.

• Frank Buss - FPGA and other hardware projects.

• GitClear - Improved Linux support for touchpads.

• Hector Martin "marcan", #2 - Asahi, Linux support for Apple Silicon Macs.

• Nefarius Software Solutions - Windows drivers for the Sony DualShock controller and others.

• Pinout.xyz - Pinout diagrams for various microcontrollers.

• Professor Abrasive - Retro gaming.

People Doing Open Source Work / Hardware related

• Luke Dashjr - Author of bfgminer and other substantial contributions to Bitcoin.

May 09 - May 15, 2022

Open Source Projects

• LogSeq - Knowledge management

• Memcode - Platform for flashcards

Oct 25 - Oct 31, 2021

Open Source Projects

• Weblate - Localization tool with tight version control integration.

Open Source Projects / Operating Systems

• Solus - Linux distibution.

Open Source Projects / Games

• Citra - Nintendo 3DS emulator.

• Ryujinx - Nintendo Switch emulator.

Oct 18 - Oct 24, 2021

Open Source Projects

• Open Chemistry - Umbrella of multiple open source chemistry projects including Avogadro, cclib, DeepChem, MSDK, Open Babel, RDKit, and 3DMol.js.

Jun 28 - Jul 04, 2021

Open Source Projects / Games

• Eigengrau's Generator - TTRPG/Dungeons and Dragons Town and NPC Generator.

May 31 - Jun 06, 2021

Open Source Projects

• JabRef - Software for bibliography management

Open Source Projects / Operating Systems

• /e/ - Privacy-focused mobile OS.

• GrapheneOS - A privacy and security focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility.

• Mobian - Debian for mobile.

Open Source Projects / Open Source Art

• GIMP - GNU Image Manipulation Program.

Open Source Projects / Hardware related

• OpenRGB - RGB lighting control application.

Apr 26 - May 02, 2021

Open Source Projects

• Zrythm - A highly automated and intuitive digital audio workstation.

Open Source Projects / Messaging and social media

• BookWyrm, #2 - Social reading and reviewing, decentralized with ActivityPub.

People Doing Open Source Work / Hardware related

• Andreas Heinisch - LibreOffice developer.

• Flammie, #2 - Apertium, linguistic tools for minority languages.

• René Rebe - T2 System Development Environment.

Feb 22 - Feb 28, 2021

Open Source Projects

• Open Source BIM Collective - Tools for building information modeling.

• PHPUnit - PHPUnit and related projects.

• Thirty Bees - Ecommerce software.

• Vim-Go - Go plugin for VIM.

Open Source Projects / Libraries

• Dear ImGui (⭐54k) - Immediate Mode Graphical User interface for C++.

• Hapi.js - Node.js framework.

People Doing Open Source Work / Hardware related

• Attogram Project - Shared Media Tagger, Open Translation Engine, and many more projects.

• Johann-S - Bootstrap JavaScript developer and various plugins and projects.

• Raph Levien - druid and other Rust projects.

• Scarlett Moore - KDE contributor.

• skypjack - C++ libraries such as uvw and EnTT.

Feb 08 - Feb 14, 2021

People Doing Open Source Work / Hardware related

• Bailey Burnsed - FOSS Nerd developing open source games in Godot and Rust

Dec 07 - Dec 13, 2020

Open Source Projects

• WireGuard, #2 - Next generation secure network tunnel.

Open Source Projects / Libraries

• Asset-Importer-Lib - Loads 40+ 3D file formats into one unified and clean data structure for game-developers.

• HaxeUI - User interface toolkit.

• MicroG, #2 - A free-as-in-freedom re-implementation of Google's proprietary Android user space apps and libraries.

• OpenFL - Cross-platform application framework.

• Tabulator - JavaScript library for building interactive tables.

Open Source Projects / Operating Systems

• Ubuntu Studio, #2 - Ubuntu variant for creating audio, video, graphics etc.

Open Source Projects / Games

• yuzu - Nintendo Switch emulator.

Nov 30 - Dec 06, 2020

People Doing Open Source Work / Hardware related

• Tobias Koppers - Founder and maintainer of Webpack.

Oct 19 - Oct 25, 2020

People Doing Open Source Work / Hardware related

• Adam King - RLTrader, Tensortrade and other trading related projects.

Jun 01 - Jun 07, 2020

Open Source Projects

• F-Droid, #2, #3 - An installable catalogue of FOSS applications for the Android platform.

Open Source Projects / Messaging and social media

• Secure Scuttlebutt - A distributed and secure peer-to-peer protocol and social network.

Open Source Projects / Open Source Art

• MyPaint - Painting and drawing program that works nicely with pressure-sensitive tablets, and its dynamic brush engine library.

Apr 27 - May 03, 2020

Open Source Projects

• JHipster - Open Source application platform for creating Spring Boot + Angular/React/Vue projects in seconds.

Mar 09 - Mar 15, 2020

Open Source Projects / Messaging and social media

• Funkwhale - A free, federated and social music server.

Open Source Projects / Operating Systems

• LineageOS, #2 - Fork of CyanogenMod.

• Qubes OS - A reasonably secure operating system.

Open Source Projects / Games

• Battle for Wesnoth - Turn-based strategy game.

Jan 27 - Feb 02, 2020

Open Source Projects

• Pixelorama - A free & open-source 2D sprite editor, made with the Godot Engine.

Dec 23 - Dec 29, 2019

Open Source Projects

• FreeCAD - Parametric 3D modeler made primarily to design real-life objects of any size.

Dec 02 - Dec 08, 2019

Open Source Projects

• ShareX Team - Screen capture and screen sharing tool.

Open Source Projects / Libraries

• stdlib - Standard library for JavaScript and Node.js with an emphasis on scientific computing.

People Doing Open Source Work / Hardware related

• Feross Aboukhadijeh - WebTorrent, StandardJS, and other JavaScript projects.

Nov 18 - Nov 24, 2019

Open Source Projects

• Duplicati - Backup client.

• Olive - High quality video editing and compositing software.

• Open Broadcaster Software, #2 - Video recording and live streaming software.

• Remmina - Remote desktop client.

• V Programming Language - Statically typed compiled programming language similar to Go, influenced by Oberon, Rust, Swift.

Open Source Projects / Messaging and social media

• postActiv - Microblogging platform.

Open Source Projects / Libraries

• Zappa - A server-less Python framework.

Open Source Projects / Operating Systems

• Parrot - Security-related Debian distribution.

• ReactOS - A free Windows-compatible Operating System

People Doing Open Source Work / Hardware related

• Andrius Štikonas - KDE contributor, mainly KDE Partition Manager.

• Jorge Bucaran - Hyperapp and many other JavaScript projects.

Oct 21 - Oct 27, 2019

Open Source Projects

• Kismet, #2 - Kismet wireless tool.

• openage - Real time strategy game engine.

• OpenFAAS - Serverless platform.

• Wiki.js, #2, #3 - Wiki platform built with Node.js.

Open Source Projects / Messaging and social media

• PixelFed, #2, #3, #4 - Federated image sharing powered by the ActivityPub protocol.

Open Source Projects / Libraries

• Vapor, #2 - Server-side Swift framework.

Open Source Projects / Operating Systems

• Serenity OS #2 - A graphical Unix-like OS for x86, with 90s aesthetics.

People Doing Open Source Work / Hardware related

• Daniel Gultsch - Conversations Jabber client.

• David Hewitt - ElementaryOS contributor, Torrential, Clipped.

• Dimitri Fontaine - Various contributions to the PostgreSQL ecosystem (pgloader, pg_auto_failover), Emacs libraries (el-get), author.

• Dominik Honnef, #2 - Working on tooling for the Go programming language.

• Ethan Lee - Contributions to FNA, SDL2 C# and other projects.

• Felipe Lima - Various projects and libraries like OkReplay, AirMapView, AsymmetricGridView, GifImageView, Wombat.

• Gabriel Gonzalez - Dhall language, Nix and Haskell educational projects and Haskell libraries and tool.

• Gilbert Pellegrom - Raneto, Vue.js libraries and more.

• James 'Purpleidea' - mgmt config, articles and more.

• Kévin Dunglas - API Platform, Vulcain, Mercure and Symfony contributions.

• Khoa Pham - A multitude of libraries, applications and articles about iOS/Cocoa,

• Lars Moelleken - Various PHP libraries and OSS contributions.

• Matt Lewis - Angular-calendar and other angular components.

• Matthieu Napoli - Bref, PHP-DI and other PHP libraries.

• Max Bridgland - Various pentesting frameworks and tools.

• Nick Sweeting - ArchiveBox and OSS contributions but also articles and documentation.

• Nicolas Hafner - Various Common Lisp libraries.

• Oleh Krehel - GNU Emacs plugins, maintainer of Ivy/Swiper/Counsel, Hydra, Avy, Lispy, and more.

• Pedro Piñera - Tuist and XcodeProj libraries, articles.

• Pedro Carrasco - Various iOS libraries and projects.

• Sanjay Madan, #2 - Mowglii apps, author of Itsycal and Snk.

• Stéphane Peter - AudioKit contributor, Makeself and other libraries and projects.

• Tim Oliver - Multitude of iOS libraries and various contribution to the iOS ecosystem.

Sep 23 - Sep 29, 2019

Open Source Projects

• Laigter - Automatic normal/specular/occlussion/parallax map generator for 2D game sprites.

Sep 16 - Sep 22, 2019

Open Source Projects / Operating Systems

• Slackware Linux - Linux distribution.

Jul 15 - Jul 21, 2019

Open Source Projects

• Godot Engine - Complete 3D engine.

• HaxeFlixel - Cross-platform 2D game engine.

Open Source Projects / Operating Systems

• Elementary OS - Ubuntu variant.

• FreeDOS - MS-DOS compatible operating system.

Open Source Projects / Games

• Play! - PS2 emulator.

Jun 17 - Jun 23, 2019

Open Source Projects

• iTerm2 - macOS terminal replacement.

Open Source Projects / Games

• Improved Initiative - D&D tabletop role-playing game combat tracker.

May 20 - May 26, 2019

Open Source Projects

• Akira, #2 - Linux application for UI and UX design.

People Doing Open Source Work / Hardware related

• Dave Täht - Working on improving the Internet.

• Jacky Alcine - Projects in the IndieWeb sphere, Koype and contributions to other open source projects.

• Michal Čihař - Contributor to Weblate and phpMyAdmin.

Apr 15 - Apr 21, 2019

Other kinds of content / Videos

• Joel Yliluoma, #2, #3 - Programming videos.

Mar 04 - Mar 10, 2019

Open Source Projects

• NativeScript-Vue - Native mobile applications with NativeScript and Vue.

Open Source Projects / Messaging and social media

• MissKey - Federated microblogging platform.

People Doing Open Source Work / Hardware related

• Kevin Cozens - Contributor to projects such as GIMP, OpenSimulator, KiCad and TinyScheme.

Other kinds of content / Articles and Tutorials

• Kyle Simpson - Author of the "You Don't Know JS" book series. Doing articles, podcasts and OSS contributions.

Feb 25 - Mar 03, 2019

People Doing Open Source Work / Hardware related

• Dragan Djuric - Creator of Uncomplicate, a family of Clojure libraries for AI, ML, and GPU high performance computing.

• Max Howell - Creator of Homebrew, maintainer of PromiseKit and a multitude of other project for Apple platforms.

Feb 11 - Feb 17, 2019

Open Source Projects / Games

• Cxbx-reloaded - Xbox emulator for Windows.

Open Source Projects / Hardware related

• DIGImend - Improving Linux support for (non-Wacom) graphics tablets.

People Doing Open Source Work / Hardware related

• Reini Urban - Maintaining and developing software such as cperl, parrot, a lot of perl5 modules, safeclib and libredwg.

• Ryan C. Gordon, #2 - Linux ports of games, game-related utilities.

Feb 04 - Feb 10, 2019

Open Source Projects / Messaging and social media

• The Lounge - Modern web IRC client.

Open Source Projects / Operating Systems

• Ubuntu Touch, #2 - Touch-friendly mobile version of Ubuntu.

People Doing Open Source Work / Hardware related

• Nate Graham - KDE contributor.

Other kinds of content / Videos

• Fun Fun Function - JavaScript and general programming videos.

• LiveOverflow - IT security videos.

Jan 28 - Feb 03, 2019

Open Source Projects

• Albert launcher - Keyboard launcher written in C++/Qt.

• Perkeep - Personal storage system.

• Webpack - JavaScript module bundler.

Open Source Projects / Messaging and social media

• Flarum - Forum platform.

• Mastodon, #2 - Federated social network server.

• Matrix, #2 - An open network for secure, decentralized communication.

Open Source Projects / Libraries

• Musl libc - The Musl libc project.

• Phalcon - Web framework delivered as a C extension for PHP.

Open Source Projects / Games

• Lutris, #2 - Game launcher & platform.

• Xenia - Xbox 360 emulator.

Open Source Projects / Hardware related

• LibrePCB - Software to develop printed circuit boards.

People Doing Open Source Work / Hardware related

• Daniël Klabbers - Contributor to Flarum and other PHP projects.

• JeanHeyd Meneide - Creates C++ libraries and standards proposals.

• Steve Purcell - MELPA lisp package archive and other software tooling.

Other kinds of content / Videos

• The Coding Train - Programming tutorials.

• ThreatWire - Hak5 security show.

Other kinds of content / Podcasts

• Destination Linux - Linux discussion and news related podcast.

• This Week in Linux - Linux News Podcast, 2-3 times more topics per episode than other podcasts.

Jan 21 - Jan 27, 2019

Open Source Projects

• bcachefs - Linux filesystem.

• Blender - 3D creation suite

• Calibre - E-books manager.

• Deluge - BitTorrent client.

• DokuWiki - Wiki application.

• Homebrew - Package manager for macOS.

• MuseScore - Music notation software.

• OpenShot - Video editor.

• Paperwork - Personal document manager.

• PlantUML - UML diagram creation software.

• Project Lombok - Java editor plugin.

• SysV init - System V init implementation.

• Tiled, #2, #3 - A 2D game level editor.

• Transmission - BitTorrent client.

• VideoLAN - Maker of the VLC video player.

Open Source Projects / Messaging and social media

• Reddit Enhancement Suite - Reddit browser extension.

Open Source Projects / Libraries

• Laravel - PHP framework.

• LibGDX - Game development framework.

• Moleculer - Progressive microservices framework for Node.js.

• Vue.js - Vue.js.

• Yii framework - PHP framework.

Open Source Projects / Operating Systems

• GhostBSD - Desktop-focused BSD OS.

• Linux Lite - Linux distribution.

• Ubuntu Mate - Ubuntu variant.

Open Source Projects / Games

• Libretro Team - Libretro, RetroArch and Lakka.

Open Source Projects / Open Source Art

• Synfig, #2 - 2D animation software.

Open Source Projects / Hardware related

• OctoPrint - Web interface for 3D printers.

People Doing Open Source Work / Hardware related

• Andreas Kainz - LibreOffice designer.

• Andreas Pardeike - Programming tutorials, games and mods.

• Drew DeVault, #2, #3 - sway, wlroots, sr.ht, scdoc, aerc, and more.

• Eevee - Games, applications and articles.

• Eric S. Raymond - Nethack, GPSd, author of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar".

• Fabio Zadrozny - Working on PyDev and related projects.

• Joey Hess - git-annex, keysafe, other Linux software.

• Jonathan Müller - Various C++ libraries, tools, articles.

• Kozec - Syncthing-GTK and SC-Controller.

• Kurt Kremitzki, #2 - FreeCAD contributor and Debian packager.

• Nils Maier - Download Them All! Firefox and Chrome extension.

• Ondřej Surý - Debian packager.

• Patrick Wardle - Owner of Objective-See, various macOS security tools and articles.

• Rekka Bellum & Devine Lu Linvega - Open source tools and games.

• Rob Landley - Working on Toybox, mkroot and various other projects.

• Scott Lahteine - Contributor to Marlin Firmware for 3D printers.

• Sindre Sorhus - Countless open source projects.

• Steven Troughton-Smith - Various iOS/macOS software.

• Thomas M. Edwards - Gaming related projects.

• Timothée Giet - GCompris contributor.

• Yorik van Havre, #2 - FreeCAD contributor.

Other kinds of content / Articles and Tutorials

• DistroWatch - Reviews and tutorials for Linux/BSD.

Other kinds of content / Podcasts

• The Debug Log - Game development.

Oct 01 - Oct 07, 2018

Open Source Projects

• Compiler Explorer - Online decompiler and compiler explorer.

Open Source Projects / Messaging and social media

• Dekko Project - Ubuntu email client.

Open Source Projects / Libraries

• Babel - JavaScript compiler.

Open Source Projects / Operating Systems

• Redox OS - OS written in Rust.

Open Source Projects / Games

• Citybound - City building game.

• Rpcs3 - PS3 emulator.

People Doing Open Source Work / Hardware related

• Egoist - Various JavaScript libraries and tools.

• Franck Nijhof - Creates Home Assistant add-ons and helps out on the main project.

Other kinds of content / Articles and Tutorials

• Alecaddd - Various programming tutorials.

• Chris Bradfield - Programming tutorials for kids.

• Fluent C++ - C++ articles.

• Meeting C++ - C++ articles.

• Modernes C++ - C++ articles.

Other kinds of content / Videos

• Corey Schafer - Python tutorials.

Other kinds of content / Podcasts

• Late Night Linux - Linux and news.

• More Than Just Code - Podcast for iOS developers.