A curated collection of open source projects worth exploring.
Find useful tools, thoughtful software and independent projects across AI, productivity, security, media, finance, collaboration and developer workflows.
Open Selection is a curated GitHub organization for discovering open source repositories that deserve attention.
The goal is simple: collect projects that are useful, interesting, sovereign, practical or inspiring, and make them easier to find.
This organization is not a replacement for upstream projects. Most repositories here are forks or mirrors that point back to the original authors and communities.
The open source world is huge. Many valuable projects are hard to find, easy to overlook or scattered across different communities.
Open Selection helps by keeping a focused selection of projects in one place.
Projects are selected because they may offer one or more of these qualities:
- Useful in everyday work or self hosting
- Open, transparent and inspectable
- Privacy respecting or local first
- Technically interesting or creatively inspiring
- Independent alternatives to closed platforms
- Worth preserving, testing or watching
- AI and local intelligence
- Self hosting and digital sovereignty
- Security and networking
- Finance and data tools
- Media, audio and creative software
- Productivity and knowledge work
- Developer tools and workflows
Browse the repositories and follow the upstream projects that interest you.
When a repository is forked, check the original project first for active development, documentation, releases and contribution rules.
Curation does not mean every project is perfect, finished or recommended for production use.
It means the project is worth a closer look.
Some projects may be mature and stable. Others may be early, experimental or simply interesting because they explore a useful idea.
Suggestions are welcome when they fit the spirit of Open Selection:
- Open source
- Useful or meaningful
- Clearly documented
- Respectful of user freedom
- Interesting enough to be discovered by more people
Open Selection is the public name.
openselection is the GitHub handle.