Jellyfin

An open source media system • New open source projects to build an open source implementation of Devin, automate the analysis of GitHub repositories, and manage dev environments • Social monitor, Fundraising news from Zama & a lot more.

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Jonathan Reimer
March 13, 2024

Welcome to a new edition of Open Pioneers - your weekly update from the forefront of open source. Today, we talk about:

  • Jellyfin, an open source media system

  • New open source projects to build an open source implementation of Devin, automate the analysis of GitHub repositories, and manage dev environments.

  • Social monitor, Fundraising news from Zama & a lot more :-)

Since last week, we have welcomed 37 new Open Pioneers. 👋 If you like this week's post, it would make my day if would share it with a friend or colleague.

🔍 Spotlight: Jellyfin

Jellyfin is a free software media system that puts you in control of managing and streaming your media, including movies, shows, music, books, and photos. It is an alternative to the proprietary Emby and Plex, to provide media from a dedicated server to end-user devices via multiple apps.

Jellyfin is a fork of Emby's 3.5.2 release and ported to the .NET Core framework to enable full cross-platform support. There are no strings attached, no premium licenses or features, and no hidden agendas: just a team who want to build something better and work together to achieve it.

Jellyfin is free software, licensed under the GNU GPL. The project was started in 2019 and has over 28k GitHub stars.

Fun fact: Jellyfin is currently the most popular project on opensourcealternative.to.

Learn more about Jellyfin: Website | GitHub

🔥 New open source projects started last week

Cool projects that have been created in the last week:

OpenDevin

An open source implementation of Devin.

github.com/OpenDevin/OpenDevin

RepoToTextForLLMs

Automate the analysis of GitHub repositories for LLMs with RepoToTextForLLMs. Fetch READMEs, structure, and non-binary files efficiently. Outputs include analysis prompts to aid in comprehensive repo evaluation.

github.com/Doriandarko/RepoToTextForLLMs

Daytona

The Open Source Dev Environment Manager.

github.com/daytonaio/daytona

🔭 Social monitor

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🦄 Fundraising news

  • Zama, an open source startup working on Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE), announced $73M in Series A funding. [Link]

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  • A transparent, open source vision for U.S. elections. [Link]

  • Career concerns as public good - The role of signaling for open source software development. [Link]

🤡 Meme of the week

Until next week,

Jonathan (@jonathimer)