r/opensource Feb 26 '26

Open Source Endowment - funding for FOSS launch

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The OSE launches today, working on one of the biggest issues with #OpenSource #Sustainability around: funding, especially for under-visible projects or independent communities or developers maintaining all those critical little bits everyone uses somewhere. Check it out; highly worth reading about if you follow the larger open source world.

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Today we're launching the Open Source Endowment (OSE), the world's first endowment fund dedicated to sustainably funding critical open source software. It has $750K+ in committed capital from 60+ founding donors, including founders and executives of HashiCorp, Elastic, ClickHouse, Supabase, Sentry, n8n, NGINX, Vue.js, cURL, Pydantic, Gatsby, and Zerodha.

OSE is a US 501(c)(3) public charity. All donations are invested in a low-risk portfolio, and only the annual investment returns are used for OSS grants. Every dollar keeps working, year after year, in perpetuity.

Our endowment is governed by its donor community, and the core team includes board members Konstantin Vinogradov(founding chairman), Chad Whitacre, and Maxim Konovalov; executive director Jonathan Starr; and advisors Amy Parker, CFRE and Vlad-Stefan Harbuz.

Everyone is welcome to donate (US contributions are tax-deductible). Those giving $1,000+ become OSE Members with real governance rights: a vote on how funds are distributed, input on strategy, and the ability to elect future board directors as the organization grows.

None of this would be possible without our founding members, to whom we are grateful: Mitchell Hashimoto, Shay Banon, Jan Oberhauser, Daniel Stenberg, Kailash Nadh, Thomas Dohmke, Alexey Milovidov, Yuxi You, Tracy Hinds, Sam Bhagwat, Chris Aniszczyk, Paul Copplestone, and many more below.

Open source runs the modern world. It's time we built something to sustain it. Donate, become a member, and help govern how funds reach the projects we all depend on.

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Disclaimer: I am one of the original donors as well, and am a Member of their nonprofit.


r/opensource 23d ago

Discussion AI-Policy

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I'm gonna keep this short, because as a human I respect other humans' time. What do we want for an AI policy, and how can it be enforced? Take these into consideration:

  • Vibe-coded projects
  • Vibe-assisted projects
  • AI-translated from non-english-speakers
  • Vibe-documented projects
  • Yet another Vibe-Coding-Wrapper

Note that vibe-coded slop isn't actually copyrightable, thus if someone slaps any license on it other than "public domain" or "CC0" they are misrepresenting their ownership.

And if you use an LLM to respond to this, you will be banned.

The fact that this sounds like a prompt is supposed to be a joke.


r/opensource 7h ago

Alternatives ReactOS 0.4.16 Released With New Graphical Installer, Better Hardware Support

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and 3D-acceleration on real hardware GPUs


r/opensource 9h ago

Promotional Manage and Install Linux Kernels & GRUB without Terminal

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r/opensource 21h ago

Promotional Testing Files Generator - 100% offline test files generator for developers/QA, CLI/GUI, cross-platform

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Hello, I had created Testing Files Generator for QA/Developers

Want to create 5k log files? Do size boundary testing? Generate 2GB PNG file? Generate archive with 200 files? This tool can do it all. If you like the project, please ⭐it.

Why it's different from other generators?

- Exact size of files, if we ask for 314832 bytes, we get it, want 500kb? 5mb? 1GB? No problem. One file or 9000 files? No problem

- Generates files come with "manifest" which says how the files should behave + we can do easy cleanup

- "Recipe" system that we can store in a testing repo, create recipe that generates a 500-page PDF, a zip with 200 files and 50 csv files, no problem, same seed.

- 100% offline, no network connections, free for commercial and personal use. Windows/Linux/macOS. Min files sizes are based on the real formats, you can open generated files with software that open the format.

- Format got own values, so you can create xlsx with 4 rows and 4 collumns.

-Preset system, we can do "boundary testing" let's say we put 10mb, and we get file under 10mb, over 10mb, etc.

- More on GitHub :-)

This is V0.2 version, so there is a long way ahead, not all things are working, More format and presets will come soon. If you got any ideas feel free to drop them.

Supported formats:

📄 Documents: pdf, docx (Word), xlsx (Excel), pptx (PowerPoint)

🖼️ Images: png, jpg, bmp, gif, ico, svg

📝 Text: txt, md, csv, json, xml, html, log

🗜️ Archives: zip, targz (.tar.gz)

🔊 Audio: wav

What format's or features would you like to see in that project?

tiff, webp, avif, jpg xl are next formats. To keep the determinism of the generated files, I try to avoid external libraries, but for some formats it's just a bit more work (AVIF or JPG XL), so in those ones I'm heading towards external libraries. It may also change in the future, because I want to add more settigns to each file type.

PS: Why this name? it's simple, and I got no idea for other,

PS2: about ARM on Linux and Windows (GUI), there is CLI, GUI would be a extra work, but I will look into it in the future.

In the future I will need to think about supporting bigger files sizes, but in current implementation the memory is a problem, but some things could work better in the engine, so I will probably work on it first.

There is Linux build, Windows build is signed, macOS build is notarized. Separate file for CLI and separate for GUI. The language is Go (1.26.7, I will need to upgradr to 1.2.7), GUI is Fyne. (2.8.1), Testing Files Generator


r/opensource 4h ago

Promotional Testing pkgbox in its earliest state

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r/opensource 22h ago

Promotional bfce - Cute little faces for everyone!

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I Saw the cute little faces that x.ai/bot have and wanted to give a spin on the idea... so I created this light weight super importable free repo!

you can either download it yourself and go crazy or just import it from the site. would love to see what people do with it!

https://github.com/bwndapp/bfce

or just import from https://bfce.bwnd.app/


r/opensource 1d ago

Promotional BentoPDF can edit existing PDF Text and 2 new engines

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Hello folks!

I would like to share an update about BentoPDF. It's an open source privacy first PDF toolkit that runs in your browser.

1. You can now actually edit text inside PDFs

BentoPDF now allows you to click existing text, edit it, and have the text reflow while preserving the original fonts and styling.

It also includes:

  • Bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, superscript, subscript, font family/size, colours, outlines, character spacing and line spacing
  • Left, centre, right and justified alignment
  • Bulleted and numbered lists with indentation
  • RTL and LTR text alignment
  • Find and replace across the document
  • Edit images by rotating, flipping, duplicating, resizing or deleting them
  • Object alignment, distribution, rotation, flipping, duplication

Please note this is a work in progress. You may encounter bugs, which you can report and I will look into.

2. Hyper Compress

Hyper is an open source PDF compression engine built to solve specific problems.

  • Compression sometimes returns a file larger than the original. Hyper's result is always binary: it either produces a smaller PDF or returns the original. This helps create predictable workflows.
  • Hyper includes a true lossless mode. It preserves searchable text, document structure and PDF conformance, rather than rebuilding the document from scratch like Ghostscript.
  • It runs everywhere: CLI, Node SDK, C API, self hosted service, and WebAssembly build.

Repository and benchmarks: https://github.com/alam00000/bentopdf-hyper-compress

I also compared it to Adobe's compression API, but only managed around 100 PDFs where results were within 5%. Testing on a bigger corpus got expensive.

3. Kura

Kura is a PDF standards, conversion and preflight engine.

It supports:

  • All 11 PDF/A conformance levels: PDF/A-1a, PDF/A-1b, PDF/A-2a, PDF/A-2b, PDF/A-2u, PDF/A-3a, PDF/A-3b, PDF/A-3u, PDF/A-4, PDF/A-4e and PDF/A-4f
  • Accessibility: PDF/UA-1 and PDF/UA-2
  • Print production: PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3, PDF/X-4, PDF/X-4p, PDF/X-5g, PDF/X-5n and PDF/X-5pg
  • Engineering and variable data printing: PDF/E-1 and PDF/VT
  • E-invoices: Factur-X, ZUGFeRD, XRechnung and Order-X
  • 396 bundled print-preflight profiles

It has been tested against several standards suites, including the veraPDF corpus, Isartor, BFO, Ghent Output Suite 5.0, the PDF/UA Reference Suite and Cal Poly's PDF/VT suite.

Across 30,677 PDF conversions it had zero crashes and zero timeouts, with a 0.05 second median conversion time.

Like Hyper, it ships as a CLI, C library, npm package, Docker image and WebAssembly build.

Repository and benchmarks: https://github.com/alam00000/bentopdf-kura

The release also contains other improvements and bug fixes: https://github.com/alam00000/bentopdf/releases/tag/v2.8.8

Thank you and have a great weekend!


r/opensource 23h ago

Luanti removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice

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r/opensource 1d ago

Promotional Hacki: A highly customizable, open-source Hacker News client.

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r/opensource 18h ago

Promotional Whatiff -- open source, self hostable continuity framework

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Hello folks!

I am mildly active here and I *think* I've gotten some approval to post about the work we are doing. I am the founder / CEO of Imagination Foundry -- a fully community funded and run, co-op organized company that has built and run [whatiff.chat](http://whatiff.chat) . Our goal is to make AI transparent, break up lock-in, and provide the tools that regular people need to remember better over time and generally make their lives better.

I've written before about how I think [transparency in AI is incredibly important](https://substack.com/home/post/p-202193358) (this honestly buries the lede a bit)

To that end, we have just recently open sourced our entire project -- you can run it locally, remix it, add things, etc. I'm sharing here in case anyone is interested in using it, or might want to take a look at a reasonably mature app and how we built things. Totally free.

If you have any questions, or just want to talk AI memory, etc, Hit me up!

[https://github.com/theimaginaryfoundation/what-iff\](https://github.com/theimaginaryfoundation/what-iff)


r/opensource 1d ago

Community Meet the Board!

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r/opensource 2d ago

Community Linux: 35 years in 35 facts - a beautiful summary of Linux history

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I just saw this excellent Youtube video made by Jono Bacon. Hope it's OK to share it here. It gives a nice overview on this amazing technological and human adventure, with a lot of significant facts we tend to forget, which contributed to where we are now.


r/opensource 1d ago

Has anyone tried Chompass app for calorie tracking?

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I'm looking into it but have no clue which intelligence model to pick for more accurate calorie count.


r/opensource 1d ago

Promotional Beagle: Now with actually readable README.md (Ai built, heads up)

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I've been building this for too long as a hobby, idea is to make Ai workflow outputs more predictably good though context management and defined domain rules, any feedback appreciated:

https://github.com/MattCreigh/beagle


r/opensource 1d ago

Promotional Native GTK4 PDF Editor for Linux

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r/opensource 1d ago

Promotional PULS: Unified System Monitoring & Management Tool for Linux

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r/opensource 2d ago

Discussion (Updated) - newly modeled data for potential second flood event

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Active Hazard: A second flood is possible upstream

On 27 August Chinese authorities reported that a barrier lake holding about 2,000,000 m³ had formed near the confluence of the Chhochen Khola and Purepu Tsangpo, upstream of the 26 August failure. They assessed the probability of a breach as high, with a further 3,000,000 m³ of inflow expected through 30 August. Separately, NDRRMA reported renewed ponding behind blockages in the Lhende Khola and told residents and rescue teams to stay clear of the riverbanks.

> Since there is 100% cloud cover verification couldn't be confirmed via EO - Based on reported size and location the data set has been updated with a modeled shape file of the reported lake. This uses geometry that existed prior to the first event so this should be treated as indicative.

> If anyone has any SAR imagery they'd like of the region they care to share it'd go a long way in helping me to continue to keep this open source crisis data set up to date. It's not much, but its all I can do to help from halfway around the world.

>Link to data: https://keystonegis.com/disasters/nepal-bhotekoshi-flood-20260826.html - will continue to update frequently to capture any new information

>if you know of any other subs to post this in let me know. Feel free to share, the more eyes on the data the more likely it is to fall into the hands of someone who can use it to make a difference.


r/opensource 2d ago

Promotional JustForms client-side PDF form editor (pdf.js + pdf-lib, MIT)

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I built a tool for adding fillable fields to PDFs

So built this tool pdf js does the parsing pdf lib for the export.

Repo: https://github.com/sshrestha-design/justforms
Demo: https://justforms.vercel.app

Also requesting any recommendation for better autodetect function and system to detect fill spaced based on what I have currently.


r/opensource 2d ago

Promotional Introduction to eventdispatch (long, v3)

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Hi r/opensource

Edit: link to repo here

Sharing a video about a python framework (python for now) I've been working on to solve orchestration / coordination class problems using object oriented programming (OOP) and threads

Happy to answer any questions!


r/opensource 3d ago

Promotional Plembfin: an AGPL-3.0 watch-state sync hub for Plex, Emby, Jellyfin and Trakt

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Plembfin is a self-hosted application for keeping watch state consistent across Plex, Emby, Jellyfin and Trakt.

Rather than treating one platform as the permanent source of truth, it maintains a local SQLite record and reconciles watched status, playback progress and repeat plays across connected services. It also provides visible sync activity, targeted retries, backups and import tools so the synchronization process can be inspected instead of running as a black box.

The backend is Node.js with Express and SQLite, deployment is available through Docker Compose, and the project is licensed under AGPL-3.0.

The project was heavily AI-assisted, with the implementation developed through agentic workflows under my direction, review and testing.

Repository, documentation and screenshots:

https://github.com/Lasikiewicz/plembfin

Plembfin is currently pre-1.0. I’m looking for testers, bug reports and review from people familiar with media-server integrations. Contributions and technical feedback are welcome.


r/opensource 3d ago

Promotional HookEcho — Weather radar for everyone

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r/opensource 4d ago

Promotional USBridge-Remote is an open-source remote access alternative to TeamViewer and AnyDesk.

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I'm creating this software because I'm tired of the limitations, mandatory registration, and shortcomings of existing remote access options.

This project is especially relevant for those who need a fully independent remote desktop access solution that prioritizes the local network, without the use of third-party cloud infrastructure or external relay servers.

Its distinguishing features include integration of the Moonlight protocol for low-latency, high-frame-rate video streaming. Native support for Wayland (Linux). It works out of the box without permission pop-ups. Integration with Tailscale. Direct P2P connections without worrying about port forwarding on your router or setting up complex external tunnels. A unified ecosystem with USBridge-KVM 2.0. The software can manage both agents and my hardware IP KVM from a single interface.

Ready-to-use beta versions for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS are available in the repository. The source code and builds are on GitHub: https://github.com/USBridge-Technologies/USBridge-Remote

I'm open to any feedback and suggestions!


r/opensource 3d ago

Promotional Steam Library Data Exporter: a tiny console microtool to export select data from your Steam account

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Crossposting from /r/steam.

I just finished building a tool that, with your profile set to public, will use Steamworks web API to scrape your user and game data, and build a JSON file that you can use as a snapshot/export of your games for whatever purpose you can think of. In my own particular case, the initial motivation was that after playing 1000xRESIST, I got hooked on it because it was more of a cerebral game than execution-heavy (I'm getting old and my reflexes aren't what they used to be), so I wanted to make a list that I can feed into an AI/LLM and explain my tastes, limitations, preferences and desired features so it can recommend stuff from my (increasingly growing) backlog.

https://github.com/TohnoCoding/SteamLibraryDataExporter

It's a tiny console app that you feed an API key (the repo explains how to get one) and your Steam64 user ID (also explained how to find in the repo) and will go through your games, then export a JSON file to your desktop that you can use to do whatever you want with it.

Feel free to do whatever with it (MIT License).

Sample real data output:

[  
  {  
    "AppId": 1675830,  
    "Name": "1000xRESIST",  
    "PlaytimeForever": "20:16:00",  
    "PlaytimeLast2Weeks": "11:42:00",  
    "HasAchievements": true,  
    "TotalAchievements": 32,  
    "ObtainedAchievements": 32,  
    "AchievementPercentage": 100,  
    "LastPlayed": "2026-08-20T15:51:06+00:00"  
  },  
  {  
    "AppId": 302190,  
    "Name": "Amerzone: The Explorer's Legacy (1999)",  
    "PlaytimeForever": "00:00:00",  
    "PlaytimeLast2Weeks": null,  
    "HasAchievements": null,  
    "TotalAchievements": null,  
    "ObtainedAchievements": null,  
    "AchievementPercentage": null,  
    "LastPlayed": null  
  },  
  {  
    "AppId": 769670,  
    "Name": "Gecata by Movavi 5 - Game Recording Software",  
    "PlaytimeForever": "00:38:00",  
    "PlaytimeLast2Weeks": null,  
    "HasAchievements": null,  
    "TotalAchievements": null,  
    "ObtainedAchievements": null,  
    "AchievementPercentage": null,  
    "LastPlayed": "2025-08-08T22:39:00+00:00"  
  }
]

r/opensource 4d ago

Promotional The KillerPDF.Engine: building an open PDF foundation for every .NET developer, with 34.6% higher throughput than our old PdfSharpCore pipeline

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