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Re: Ask HN: What open source projects need help?

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Post by aaronbrethorst »

deskr wrote: post #8
aaronbrethorst wrote: post #2

OneBusAway A suite of real-time public transit projects that are used by millions of people every day. OneBusAway helps people find out when and where their bus will arrive, and provides them with a trip planner, too. OBA is used by transit riders everywhere from Seattle to New York City; Adelaide, Australia to Buenos Aires, Argentina. In addition to developers, we would also benefit greatly from product management a…

I think you need a PR personnel too.

Are you volunteering? ;)

Re: Ask HN: What open source projects need help?

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Post by grothoff »

GNU Taler (https://taler.net/); privacy-preserving payment system. Written in C/Java/TypeScript/Kotlin/Rust/Postgresql/etc.; needs include coding (especially integration into other applications) documentation (review, proof-reading), testing (incl. benchmark, UX), packaging, translation (Weblate/gettext); any help welcome ;-).

Re: Ask HN: What open source projects need help?

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Post by laurex »

I love this idea, thanks for putting this together. I'm biased, but I also wish more FOSS/OSS projects had a realistic contributor path for UX folks to contribute- so many (non-dev-tooling) projects suffer as a result of building without collaboration from people who might use the product.

Re: Ask HN: What open source projects need help?

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Post by hombre_fatal »

I'm skeptical that this does anything. I'd wager that just about nobody is sitting around with all this energy waiting to contribute to a project they've never used and just heard about in an HN thread.

I'm sure you get some commitments of people who say they will help. Just like people say they'll pay for your product once you build it and people who say they'll go to an event 6 months from now.

It's hard enough to find contributors among engineers who are using a tool.

Re: Ask HN: What open source projects need help?

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Post by medo-bear »

grothoff wrote: post #13

GNU Taler ( https://taler.net/); privacy-preserving payment system. Written in C/Java/TypeScript/Kotlin/Rust/Postgresql/etc.; needs include coding (especially integration into other applications) documentation (review, proof-reading), testing (incl. benchmark, UX), packaging, translation (Weblate/gettext); any help welcome ;-).

Taler seems cool,but this is a huge no no:

    Ensure your wallet is regularly online to avoid losing money due to expiration!

Re: Ask HN: What open source projects need help?

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Post by ent101 »

Puter

https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter

We're building a "Web OS" designed to be feature-rich, exceptionally fast, and highly extensible! It can be used for anything from a Dropbox alternative to a cloud environment for building websites and apps!

Stack: JavaScrips. No frameworks.

Need help with: Frontend and backend.

Reach out: nj@puter.com

Re: Ask HN: What open source projects need help?

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Post by alwayslikethis »

medo-bear wrote: post #17
grothoff wrote: post #13

GNU Taler ( https://taler.net/); privacy-preserving payment system. Written in C/Java/TypeScript/Kotlin/Rust/Postgresql/etc.; needs include coding (especially integration into other applications) documentation (review, proof-reading), testing (incl. benchmark, UX), packaging, translation (Weblate/gettext); any help welcome ;-).

Taler seems cool,but this is a huge no no: Ensure your wallet is regularly online to avoid losing money due to expiration!

Wow that's a big problem. At least my monero don't expire if I leave it for a few years..

Re: Ask HN: What open source projects need help?

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Post by craftyjon »

KiCad EDA - https://kicad.org

KiCad is a popular open-source EDA tool used by engineers and designers across the globe. We're always open to contributions from experienced C++ developers, especially those who are also familiar with the world of electrical engineering / PCB design. Check out our developer landing page[1] to find the developers email list and contribution guides. We accept merge requests on GitLab[2] and try to keep a number of lower-scope issues tagged starter [3] for new developers to take on.

We're currently in our annual feature freeze as we focus on stabilizing features added in the past year and squashing bugs ahead of our planned 9.0 release at the end of January. Any help testing the nightly builds and surfacing bugs to fix is appreciated as well as actual bug-fixing!

[1] https://dev-docs.kicad.org/en/getting-started/index.html

[2] https://gitlab.com/kicad

[3] https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/?label_name[]=s...

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