Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Help reddit celebrate 1 year of open source by helping your favorite open source project!

Wow, on June 17, 2009, it'll be an entire year since reddit went open source. If you weren't around, or missed the hacky stop-motion video announcing it, reddit has been open source for a year now. See for yourself at code.reddit.

Since open-sourcing, we've seen a number of cool incarnations of reddit code around the web. One redditor, chromakode, created a fantastic FireFox extension called Socialite that's only rivaled in its awesomeness by our new (opt-in) reddit toolbar.

All in all, we've been quite pleased with the decision to open source. The least we could do to celebrate is give some link-love to some open source projects that deserve it. Arc, anyone?

As usual, we're going to let you decide which open-source projects deserve free space in the reddit sponsored link box. Submit your candidates (reasoning optional, link preferred, bonus points for a good headline to sell the project) to this thread and the top 3 highest scoring projects (serious entries only) as of noon pacific on June 17 will each get a full day's run as a sponsored link.
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