A hand-curated, annotated link directory across ten areas, from software and AI to security, economics and architecture. Every entry states what the resource does and where it parts ways with its neighbours. https://latifkedi.github.io/useful-sites/feed/en/acik_kaynak.xml 2026-10-09T09:00:00Z latifkedihttps://github.com/latifkedi CC BY 4.0 https://pyladies.com/ 2026-10-09T09:00:00Z <p>An international mentorship community for women and gender-diverse people who use Python, with local chapters. Unlike general user groups it focuses on a safe place to learn for that audience.</p><p><a href="https://pyladies.com/">https://pyladies.com/</a></p> https://github.com/johnjago/awesome-free-software 2026-09-18T00:00:00Z <p>A list of free software (as in freedom) projects and resources. Unlike open-source lists, its criterion is user freedom (the FSF definition) rather than merely open source code.</p><p><a href="https://github.com/johnjago/awesome-free-software">https://github.com/johnjago/awesome-free-software</a></p> https://www.codetriage.com 2026-08-21T20:53:20Z <p>Sends you one open issue a day from projects you follow, for people who want to contribute. Against scanning &quot;good first issue&quot; labels the difference is regularity and small doses — which is what turns contribution into a habit.</p><p><a href="https://www.codetriage.com">https://www.codetriage.com</a></p> https://opensource.guide/ 2026-08-21T20:53:20Z <p>GitHub’s guides to open source: starting a project, taking contributions, running a community, handling burnout. Unlike licence or tooling guides it deals with the social side — the sustainability of the project rather than the code.</p><p><a href="https://opensource.guide/">https://opensource.guide/</a></p> https://oss.gallery/ 2026-08-21T20:53:20Z <p>A crowdsourced showcase of open-source projects, each with a live demo and repository link. Against awesome lists it is visual — you see what a thing does before reading about it.</p><p><a href="https://oss.gallery/">https://oss.gallery/</a></p> https://shields.io/ 2026-08-21T20:53:20Z <p>Generates README badges: build status, version, downloads, licence. Against hand-made SVGs they bind to live data — the badge fetches the npm version or CI status itself.</p><p><a href="https://shields.io/">https://shields.io/</a></p> https://github.com/mungell/awesome-for-beginners 2026-08-17T20:53:20Z <p>A list of repositories with beginner-friendly issues, organised by programming language. Against Up For Grabs the split by language is the difference — finding a project in a language you know is straightforward.</p><p><a href="https://github.com/mungell/awesome-for-beginners">https://github.com/mungell/awesome-for-beginners</a></p> https://www.firsttimersonly.com 2026-08-17T20:53:20Z <p>An introduction for people making their first open-source contribution, aimed squarely at reducing the fear. Unlike contribution guides it addresses the psychological barrier rather than the technical one.</p><p><a href="https://www.firsttimersonly.com">https://www.firsttimersonly.com</a></p> https://gitcoin.co 2026-08-17T20:53:20Z <p>A platform for placing bounties on open-source work and raising funds, born in the Ethereum ecosystem. Against a donate button it rewards the work: money can be attached to a specific issue.</p><p><a href="https://gitcoin.co">https://gitcoin.co</a></p> https://opensource.google/ 2026-08-17T20:53:20Z <p>The hub for Google’s open-source projects, policies and programmes. Against browsing the repositories one by one, the corporate policy is published too — a look at how a large company runs open source.</p><p><a href="https://opensource.google/">https://opensource.google/</a></p> https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com 2026-08-17T20:53:20Z <p>An annual programme that pairs students with open-source projects and pays them. Against an internship the output is public — the work sits on your résumé as a link.</p><p><a href="https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com">https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com</a></p> https://launchpad.net 2026-08-17T20:53:20Z <p>Canonical’s project hosting and bug tracker — where Ubuntu package bug reports live. Unlike GitHub it is tied to the Ubuntu ecosystem, hosting Bazaar and PPA package repositories.</p><p><a href="https://launchpad.net">https://launchpad.net</a></p> https://fellowship.mlh.io/ 2026-08-17T20:53:20Z <p>A funded remote programme where you contribute to open source in a team. Against Google Summer of Code the teamwork and mentorship are structured — you work with a group rather than alone.</p><p><a href="https://fellowship.mlh.io/">https://fellowship.mlh.io/</a></p> https://opensource.com 2026-08-17T20:53:20Z <p>An archive of writing on open-source culture, tooling and governance, supported by Red Hat. Against technical blogs it goes into licensing, community and institutional adoption.</p><p><a href="https://opensource.com">https://opensource.com</a></p> https://sourceforge.net 2026-08-17T20:53:20Z <p>The older distribution platform for open-source projects and an archive of the pre-GitHub era. Unlike GitHub it holds long-established and abandoned projects — still where some old software survives.</p><p><a href="https://sourceforge.net">https://sourceforge.net</a></p> https://sourcegraph.com/search 2026-08-17T20:53:20Z <p>Code search across open-source repositories, with regular expressions and structural queries. Against GitHub search it spans the ecosystem rather than one repository — the way to see how an API is actually called in the wild.</p><p><a href="https://sourcegraph.com/search">https://sourcegraph.com/search</a></p> https://up-for-grabs.net 2026-08-17T20:53:20Z <p>Lists projects that set aside issues for new contributors. Against searching labels on GitHub the projects here opted in — whoever opened the issue is already waiting for someone to take it.</p><p><a href="https://up-for-grabs.net">https://up-for-grabs.net</a></p>