Is there a community/site that organises and lists open source projects?

I want to get into working on open source projects but I have found it difficult to find the projects themselves.

I’d preferably like to be able to filter by project type, tech stack, state of development, active users, and active developers.

Is this an open source project in itself?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  • mocoma@lemm.eeEnglish
    15·
    2 days ago

    While I don’t know of any such site, I wouldn’t recommend it either.

    Open source projects are made by the community, for the community, so I’d recommend you start by helping out one of the projects that you personally use. Maybe you can fix a bug that is bothering you, or implement a functionality that you are missing.

    • SomethingBlack@lemmy.worldOP
      52·
      2 days ago

      Can I ask why you wouldn’t recommend it? I’m open to the possibility that I’m missing something but imo exposure and attention would often be a big hurdle when it comes to open source projects.

      Having a repository that lists and describes them doesn’t feel like it could be a bad thing to me

      • Cheesy LaZanya@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        2 days ago

        I believe what they might mean is if you don’t personally use a project, you might not be as committed/passionate about it as someone who uses the software in their daily life and cares about it as a user.

        So it’s not about finding one with lots of users and dropping in there if it is software you don’t care about.

        If you are just getting into using open source software though and have yet to find any that are important to you, then you can usually find lists of open source alternatives (from a user perspective) with a search fairly easily to get to better know what is out there and what you might be most interested in. (And lists like that for people to find software like that are generally helpful, I found lots of tools I wouldn’t have otherwise known about through peoples collections of favourites/alternatives/etc.!)

        • SomethingBlack@lemmy.worldOP
          61·
          2 days ago

          That’s a reasonable stance and I do agree.

          I was about to say “but what if I’m just not yet using a project that I would otherwise be passionate about because I don’t know it exists”, but you’ve basically gone over that in the rest of your comment. So thank you

            • SomethingBlack@lemmy.worldOP
              22·
              2 days ago

              It is a downloadable file. How often do you trust strangers that say “Here you go” with no actual context. I’m not trying to be mean, but seriously put yourself in my shoes. Would you download that file?

                • SomethingBlack@lemmy.worldOP
                  12·
                  2 days ago

                  My understanding of gzip files is simply that they’re compressed. Compressed files can still be dangerous last I checked. And like I said to the other guy, I don’t know what Debian is. I’m asking for a start into the open source world, how would I know that this random ass compressed file from somewhere I’ve never heard of is going to be safe?

                  • badlotus@discuss.onlineEnglish
                    4·
                    2 days ago

                    Debian is one of the largest GNU/Linux variants out there. Who and what you trust are personal decisions but they’ve got a good reputation.

                  • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
                    11·
                    2 days ago

                    If you don’t trust us, then you’re not going to be able to perform the necessary work to contribute, because there’s a lot of “download this, run this”.