I realise I never shared this! A few weeks ago I built Tack: a collaborative whiteboarding app, mainly designed for open source project planning. It's like a git-native FigJam. Free, open source, self-hosted. tack.social
Oct 30, 2026 at 1:20 PM
Tack
A live, multiplayer whiteboard full of your real issues and pull requests. Plan together, and what you decide goes back to GitHub. Free, open source and self-hosted.
Pippin Williamson on Building a Community Around Your Open Source Project
When Pippin Williamson launched Easy Digital Downloads in early 2012, he could not have predicted the success that the open source project is experiencing today. The core plugin is approaching half…
Collaborative Editor Demo App
Twelve tips for growing communities around your open source project | Ben Balter
Publishing code isn't enough. Twelve practical tips to attract users, welcome contributors, and grow a healthy open source community.
RECONSIDER
About 12 years ago, I co-founded a startup called Basecamp: A simple project collaboration tool that helps people make progress together, sold on a monthly subscription. It took a part of some people’s work life and made it a little better. A little nicer than trying to manage a project over…
Tuple: Screen sharing for people who build software
Screen sharing for people who build software. Because better discussion leads to faster production. On macOS and Windows.
Gitea Official Website
Gitea - Git with a cup of tea! Painless self-hosted all-in-one software development service, including Git hosting, code review, team collaboration, package registry and CI/CD
Decent Code Collaboration Concepts after Git(Hub)
Assembling Community OS — Open Indie
I've previously written about the multi-app platform of my dreams as a community professional: The Community OS stack. While undeniably ...
What They Don't Tell You About Maintaining an Open Source Project
i built kaneo.app - an open source, self-hosted kanban board. turns out shipping code is the easy part. here's what maintaining it actually looks like.
Gergely Orosz on Twitter / X
Doing it *for yourself* - amazing, personal software!! And lots of funDoing it *for your team* of 35 - sounds like less fun, and rebuilding a bunch of stuff that is not minimalist but what collaboration software has to do— Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz) March 25, 2026
Keep Your Friends Close — Open Tech Strategies | Blog
One of the insider secrets of free and open source software (FOSS) is that most of the rules a project uses on a day-to-day basis are not found in the software’s license. There are contribution guidelines, which are enforced by the project only taking contributions that meet them. There are codes of conduct, which are a condition of community participation. There are endorsements, official membership, a voice in setting the project roadmap, and all kinds of other benefits that attach to varying types of community participation. In each case, entirely external to the license, there are official rules and unwritten norms that govern how participants gain the benefits of joining the civic life of a project.
Open By Design: Tools for Participation - An Evening with Internet Archive Canada · Luma
Internet Archive Canada for Open by Design - Tools for Participation. Join us as we explore how we can build a more open and participatory digital future, and…
New thing! @jrcpl.us and I have been exploring home-made software. We made a prototype of a tool for making scrappy little apps for you and your friends. pontus.granstrom.me/scrappy/
Scrappy
pontus.granstrom.mei couldn’t be more excited Inlay is finally out and open source! i’ve been working on this nonstop for the past few months. it’s a bit in the “mad science” territory but i hope it inspires you too to think about malleable and remixable social user interfaces
Inlay
today was the Inlay release day! discover, remix, create, and compose different ways to view the Atmosphere data on inlay.at
