# github/opensource.guide

📚 Community guides for open source creators

Repository: https://github.com/github/opensource.guide
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/opensourceguide
Homepage: https://opensource.guide/
Language: HTML
License: CC-BY-4.0
License Family: other
Topics: open-source, oss, best-practices, tutorial, documentation, hacktoberfest
Last push: 2026-08-13T18:13:49+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 76/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 97, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3731, "days_push": 20, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 15648, forks 15497 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:13.331523+00:00)

## What it is
A collection of community-curated guides by GitHub on how to launch, run, and contribute to open source projects. It covers topics like starting a project, licensing, governance, community building, and maintainer best practices.

## Use cases
- learn how to start an open source project
- understand open source licensing and legal basics
- find best practices for maintaining an open source project
- learn how to make a first open source contribution
- write a code of conduct for my project
- figure out how to grow users and community for my repo
- learn about open source governance and leadership
- avoid maintainer burnout

## When to choose
- you are new to open source and want trusted, vendor-neutral guidance
- you are launching or maintaining a project and need best practices on licensing, community, and metrics
- you want educational material to share with contributors or a community

## When to avoid
- you need executable tooling or automation rather than reading material
- you need deep technical tutorials on a specific programming language or framework
- you need legally binding legal advice rather than general guidance

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: stable
- function: documentation
- domain: developer-tools, tutorials, awesome-lists
- platform: -
- tags: open-source, best-practices, community, maintainers, contributing, jekyll, guides, web-server

## Member repositories
- github/opensource.guide (main) score 76

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:13.331523+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:05:35.845635+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/github/opensource.guide (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:13.331523+00:00, sha b8b898977aee)
  - homepage: https://opensource.guide/ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:03:37.505319+00:00, sha 476c15afb55f)
  - site_page: https://opensource.guide/starting-a-project (fetched 2026-08-29T08:03:37.508180+00:00, sha 5da40f7692a7)
  - site_page: https://opensource.guide/legal (fetched 2026-08-29T08:03:37.511735+00:00, sha 4eb63e2f1cac)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.