Awesome Openness

A curated and opinionated list of FOSS applications, commons, communities and concepts.

Software

Content Management Systems (CMS)

Traditional and Hybrid Web CMS

• Drupal - Popular PHP CMS with early-stage headless capabilities
• MODX - PHP CMS
• Wagtail - Python CMS based on Django, headless capabilities
• Wordpress - Most popular blog publishing platform and CMS, API for headless capabilities

Headless CMS

• Cockpit - PHP headless content platform
• Craft CMS - PHP CMS with GraphQL API
• Directus - Node.js data platform
• Ghost - CMS focusing on media publishing
• Keystone - Node.js Headless CMS
• Payload - App framework and headless CMS
• Prismic - Javascript & Typescript CMS, also utilizes Svelte Components
• ProcessWire - PHP Content management system and framework (CMF)
• Strapi - Node.js Headless CMS
• Sulu - Symphony-based Headless CMS
• Tina - Headless CMS for Markdown, MDX, and JSON

JAMstack and Static Site Generator

• Gatsby - Popular static stie generator
• Gridsome - A Jamstack framework for Vue.js
• Hugo - Popular static stie generator
• Publii - A Electron-based static site generator

Flat-file and git-based CMS

• Aloia CMS - Flat-file content management system for Laravel
• Automad - A flat-file content management system and template engine
• Bludit - Flat-File CMS based on PHP, JSON, Markdown and HTML
• Decap - Content management for your Git workflow
• Grav - Flat-File CMS powered by PHP, Markdown, Twig, and Symfony
• Pico - Pico is a stupidly simple, blazing fast, flat file CMS
• Saaze - An all-inclusive, flat-file CMS for simple websites and blogs (PHP)
• Typemill - Flat-file CMS to create websites and eBooks

Wiki and Knowledge Base

• Bookstack - Laravel/PHP application to organize your knowledge in form of books

Media Asset Management (MAM), Media Libraries, Music Server and protocols

• Ampache - Web based audio/video streaming application and file manager (AGPL-3.0)
• Beets - Python music library manager (MIT)
• Deaftone - A lightweight music server written in Rust (GPL-3.0)
• Funkwhale - A decentralized music server in the Fediverse (Subsonic API, AGPL-3.0)
• Jellyfin - The Free Software Media System (GPL-2.0)
• Koel - PHP personal music streaming server (MIT)
• MediaCMS - Media Asset Repository based on Django, Celery, Python 3 (AGPL-3)
• Mopidy - Extensible music server written in Python (Subsonic API, Apache-2.0)
• Navidrome - Modern Music Server and Streamer for handling large libraries (Subsonic API, GPL-3.0)
• MusicBrainz - MusicBrainz is an open music encyclopedia that collects music metadata and makes it available to the public (Public Domain)
• MusicBrainz Picard - Picard is a cross-platform music tagger powered by the MusicBrainz database (GPL-2.0)

CRM

• CiviCRM
• Tendenci

Community Radio and Broadcasting

Websites

• radio.garden - Explore radios on a global map

Software and Tools

• Automated Radio (AURA) - A software suite to build, organize and broadcast community radios
• azuracast - web radio station in a box
• Butt - broadcast using this tool, popular streaming client
• Crazy Arms - Radios backend and play-out based on Liquidsoap
• Datafruits hacking repository - Datafruits is a cooperatively owned and operated free-form net radio station
• Johnny-Six - Simple radio automation system built with Liquidsoap
• Lahmacun radio - Open source tools by the community music radio from Budapest
• LibreTime - Radio Broadcast & Automation Platform
• Liquidsoap - Audio and video streaming language
• LOHROthek - Django Radio management backend and media library frontend
• Radio RaBe - Open source tools from the Bern-based Community Radio
• Showergel - Complementary features for Liquidsoap
• xrcb.cat - Open source tools from Barcelona Community Radio Network

Communities and Concepts

Manifests

Festival and Events