A few times recently, I’ve been working with an open source project of some kind and it turned out that the maintainer was another Atlanta local. We have great resources for keeping track of what entrepreneurs in town are working on (see my post on that here), and what local VCs are up to (here), but I at least didn’t know of any good listings of what our engineers are working on.
Open source and great social platforms like github have made it possible to have great successful projects where none of the maintainers know each other or live near each other. But I think it is still useful to know who in town is working on similar things, what major projects are maintained here, and maybe what trends and interests seem to be held in town.
Towards that end, I’ve started a github repo with a listing of all of the large-ish github projects I could find that are maintained by an Atlantan. I’m sure I’ve miss-categorized many, and forgotten even more, but I’ll keep updating it as I come across new ones and accept pull requests with any updates.
A couple of observations from my first go at it:
- A lot of ruby projects
- A lot of git-related projects (including my own)
- Less java than I would have thought, but that may just be my own sampling error
So check out the repo, send me a pull request with your projects, projects you know of, or remove those that I messed up:
https://github.com/wdm0006/atlanta-oss
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