521xueweihan/hellogithub

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    What It Does
      Monthly curated list
      Beginner friendly picks
      Open source discovery
    Content Types
      Open source projects
      Open source books
      Practice projects
    Community
      WeChat group
      Weibo account
      Contributors list
    Audience
      Chinese developers
      Open source beginners
      English readers
    License
      Non commercial only
      No derivatives

mindmap root((repo)) What It Does Monthly curated list Beginner friendly picks Open source discovery Content Types Open source projects Open source books Practice projects Community WeChat group Weibo account Contributors list Audience Chinese developers Open source beginners English readers License Non commercial only No derivatives

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Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Browse monthly curated lists to find beginner-friendly open-source projects you can actually contribute to.

USE CASE 2

Discover interesting Chinese open-source tools and libraries you wouldn't find through typical English searches.

USE CASE 3

Submit your own open-source project to be featured in a future issue and gain visibility in the community.

Tech stack

Python

Getting it running

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min

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In plain English

HelloGitHub is a Chinese-language project that shares interesting, beginner-friendly open-source projects from GitHub. According to the README, it is published as a monthly magazine, with new issues released on the 28th of every month. Each issue rounds up a curated mix of approachable open-source projects, open-source books, hands-on practice projects, and enterprise-grade projects, so readers can quickly experience the appeal of open source and grow to enjoy contributing to it. English and Japanese versions of the README state the same intent. The repository itself is essentially a long index of past issues. The visible README shows links to issues numbered 86 through 121, each pointing to a Markdown file under the content folder where the actual write-ups live. There is also an official website at hellogithub.com that the README points to for a better reading experience, plus a WeChat public account, a Weibo account, and a WeChat group. The README invites readers to recommend or self-recommend their own projects to be included in a future issue, and links to a contributors list. A small sponsors table credits UCloud, Upyun CDN, OpenIM, Qiniu Cloud, and OfoxAI. The project is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license. You would use HelloGitHub when you want a regular, curated stream of approachable open-source projects to explore, especially as a beginner looking for a friendly entry point. The repository is tagged as a Python project in its metadata, but the content is editorial rather than code, so what you actually consume is the monthly write-ups and links.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1

Using the HelloGitHub content folder, parse the latest issue Markdown file and give me a summary of every project listed, with its category and GitHub link.

Prompt 2

Translate a HelloGitHub issue Markdown file from Chinese to English so I can share it with my English-speaking team.

Prompt 3

Write a Python script that reads all HelloGitHub issue Markdown files in the content folder and extracts project names, URLs, and categories into a CSV.

Prompt 4

Help me write a project submission for HelloGitHub following their contribution guidelines for my Python CLI tool.

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