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Open {re}Source

Open source, {re}explained.

How it works, how to contribute, how to run your own project. A free guide, articles and a showcase by the Open {re}Source community.

01Guide

Nine modules, from the first contribution to funding

01

What Is Open Source?

The rules, the history and the numbers behind open source, so the rest of the guide makes sense. Six chapters, no prerequisites.

02

Getting Started With Open Source

Where open-source projects live, how to judge one before you install it, build on it or contribute to it, how to talk to its maintainers, and the Git you need. Five chapters for first-timers.

03

Contributing to Open-Source Projects

From picking a project to a merged pull request, plus the community, the portfolio and the rough patches. For anyone who wants their name in a changelog.

04

Creating Your Own Open-Source Project

Turning a folder on your laptop into a project other people can use and improve. The idea, the plan, the repository, the community. Licenses have a module of their own.

05

Licensing & Legal

What a license lets people do with your code, how to choose one, apply it and change it later. For anyone who publishes code or depends on it.

06

Maintaining Open-Source Projects

The job nobody describes. Reviewing, updating dependencies, keeping a community, and not burning out. For anyone with the Maintain bit.

07

Promoting Open-Source Projects

Making a good project findable without becoming a marketer. Why promotion isn't a dirty word, and a name, a logo and a voice that hold up.

08

Financing Open-Source Projects

Where the money comes from, where it goes, and what it costs to ask. The funding models, and how to raise money without a legal department.

09

Open Source & AI

What changes when contributions and reports come out of AI tools, and the rules projects wrote in response. For maintainers and contributors alike.

02Articles

Latest articles

2026-02-01 · 6 min · AI · Tools

Running a Local AI Inside Obsidian with Ollama

Learn to set up Ollama with Obsidian for a completely local AI writing assistant. Step-by-step guide to private, offline AI that works with your notes without sending data to the cloud.

2024-09-29 · 3 min · LinkedIn · Social Media

Coding LinkedIn Carousels

Creating LinkedIn carousels is a great way to share information in a visually appealing format. Learn how to code LinkedIn carousels with this guide.

03Showcase

What the community builds

Showcase your projects

Explore what the Open {re}Source community builds for the open source world.

Submit your open-source project(s), profiles or websites to the showcase and let the community discover your work.

04Support us

Keep Open {re}Source going

Help us continue to build and maintain this project by becoming a sponsor or dropping a star on our GitHub repository.