🚀 FOSS Glossary

A gamified glossary of Free and Open Source Software terms, with humor, sarcasm, and honest truths.

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✨ How It Works

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1. Add a Term

Fork the repo and add your FOSS term to terms.yaml

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2. Get Scored

Receive instant quality score out of 100 points

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3. Earn Glory

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📊 Scoring System

Every term is scored on:
• Base Definition - 20 points for the essentials
• Humor - Up to 30 points for making us laugh!
• Explanation - 20 points for context
• Cross-references - Up to 20 points for connections
• Tags - 10 points for categorization

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📝 Example Term

- term: "Yak Shaving"
  definition: "Doing seemingly unrelated tasks before the actual task"
  explanation: "You start trying to fix a bug, and somehow end up updating your entire OS"
  humor: "I came here to write code, and somehow I'm now learning about Tibetan yak grooming"
  tags: ["productivity", "procrastination"]
  see_also: ["Bikeshedding", "Scope Creep"]

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