AmuseAlot is an automated newsletter that tracks what museums and cultural heritage organizations are building on GitHub. It monitors over 130 organizations worldwide and delivers a digest every Wednesday of new projects, releases, and notable development activity.
Every Wednesday, the pipeline scans public GitHub activity from museums, national libraries, archives, and other cultural heritage organizations. It collects push events, new repositories, and releases, then enriches each event with repository metadata like language, stars, and descriptions.
An AI model (Llama 3.3 via Groq) reads each event and scores it for relevance to the museum tech community. It assigns a tier (featured, mentioned, or skipped), writes a short summary, and selects a spotlight project for each issue. The summaries you read in the newsletter are AI-generated based on commit messages, release notes, and README files.
The entire pipeline is open source. You can see how it works, suggest improvements, or run your own version: github.com/callestenfelt/musemaniac
This project is inspired by heripo-research-radar, an AI-powered newsletter for Korean cultural heritage research.