What are the most distributed, community-driven open-source projects that have been successful?

• calibre

  862 18,288 9.9 Python

  The official source code repository for the calibre ebook manager

Calibre is pretty successfully although some may challenge that it's a one-man show, but there is a community developing plug-ins and reporting bugs.

• chromium

  224 17,522 10.0

  The official GitHub mirror of the Chromium source

  

If we only consider OSS projects that are not prominently backed in by companies (e.g. Google with Chromium, Facebook with React), and only really driven by distributed individuals coming together to maintain something beautiful, what do you think the best examples would be?

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• React

  1,690 221,535 9.8 JavaScript

  The library for web and native user interfaces.

  

If we only consider OSS projects that are not prominently backed in by companies (e.g. Google with Chromium, Facebook with React), and only really driven by distributed individuals coming together to maintain something beautiful, what do you think the best examples would be?

• Bitcoin

  906 75,561 10.0 C++

  Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree

  

• hardened_malloc

  652 1,152 7.9 C

  Hardened allocator designed for modern systems. It has integration into Android's Bionic libc and can be used externally with musl and glibc as a dynamic library for use on other Linux-based platforms. It will gain more portability / integration over time.

  

• CAD_Sketcher

  19 2,481 8.1 Python

  Constraint-based geometry sketcher for blender

I haven't tried it out yet but here's the plugin CAD Sketcher for blender, worth checking out https://github.com/hlorus/CAD_Sketcher

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