Open Sauced is an open-source project designed to facilitate contributions from new developers by providing structured onboarding through a dashboard built on the GitHub GraphQL API, as well as recommending projects via Hot Open Sauced. Founded by Brian Douglas, Open Sauced aims to connect contributors and maintainers with data to encourage public work and learning in the open-source community. Douglas, who has experience with open-source communities through his work at companies like Netlify and GitHub, created Open Sauced to streamline his own contributions and to support others in navigating the open-source landscape. The project also plans to launch an analytical dashboard to assist maintainers in attracting and retaining contributors. The Open Sauced community is welcoming to various types of contributions, including coding, design, project management, and technical writing, and offers opportunities for involvement through its repositories and Discord channel. Additionally, Testcontainers, a Java library that facilitates integration testing with Docker containers, is highlighted as a staff pick, praised for its support of multiple programming languages and ease of setting up integration tests.