Resources for FOSS maintainers

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Resources Category Description
OpenSSF Best Practices Badge Program Infrastructure, Guides Helps projects adopt key security and quality practices.
Open Source Guide by Github Guides Guide on creating, managing and growing OSS projects
Grants by FOSS United Funding Grants for Indian FOSS projects
FLOSS/fund by Zerodha Funding No []strings attached funding for critical projects
fundingjson Funding, Discoverability open JSON manifest for describing FOSS funding requirements
Conventional Comments Best Practices Comments that are easy to grok and grep
Good docs Documentation, Guides Templates that help you create quality documentation faster and easier.
CLA assistant Legal Easily handle Contributor License Agreements (CLAs)
Developer Certificate of Origin Legal Lighter version of a CLA
Github SOSS fund Funding, Security Funding + Security training for OSS projects
Lemonade Stand Funding A handy guide to financial support for open source
Security Mindsets Worksheet Security, Best Practices Worksheet - Developing a Security Mindset for Your Open Source Project

https://www.thegooddocsproject.dev/

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https://contributing.md/ - OSS guides

https://cla-assistant.io/ - Easily handle Contributor License Agreements (CLAs)

https://developercertificate.org/ - Developer Certificate of Origin is a a lightweight certification used in open-source software to ensure that contributors have the right to share the code they submit under the project’s license. Basically a lighter version of a CLA.

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The Tor community maintains a similar page on their forums: Grants, fellowships, and funding for people/projects in the Tor ecosystem - General Discussion - Tor Project Forum

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