SEEKING PROJECTS: 20+ years software engineer, lots of experience in Smalltalk and JavaScript. Looking for Ruby on Rails in general or Rust projects on Web3 to volunteer on. Not a beginner in either of those.
Find my email in https://github.com/sebastianconcept
Put "Volunteer Opportunity" in the subject, just so I don't confuse you with a recruiter.
Ask HN: Looking for a project to volunteer on? (February 2024)
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Re: Ask HN: Looking for a project to volunteer on? (February 2024)
#22SEEKING VOLUNTEERS - https://www.oilshell.org/ - https://github.com/oilshell/oil/
I'm looking for people to help fill out the "standard library" for Oils/YSH. We're implementing a shell for Python and JavaScript programmers who avoid shell!
On the surface, this is writing some very simple functions in typed Python. But I've realized that the hardest parts are specifying, TESTING, and documenting what the functions do.
Fun part: you just write in typed Python and our tools automatically translate it to fast C++.
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The most recent release announcement also asks for help - https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2024/01/release-0.19.0.html (long)
If you find all those details interesting (if maybe overwhelming), you might have a mind for language design, and could be a good person to help.
Surveying what Python and JavaScript do is very helpful, e.g. for the recent Str.replace() function, which is nontrivial (takes a regex or string, and replacement template or string)
But there are also very simple methods to get started, like Dict.values() and List.indexOf(), which can be less than 20 lines of code. Other people have already contributed code. Examples:
https://github.com/oilshell/oil/commit/58d847008427dba2e60fe...
https://github.com/oilshell/oil/commit/8f38ee36d01162593e935...
Again the specifying and testing is the real work.
This page can also be useful to tell if you'll have fun working on the project - https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/Where-Contributors-Have...
More on #help-wanted on Zulip (requires login) - https://oilshell.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/417617-help-wa...
Please send a message on Github or Zulip! Or e-mail me andy at oilshell dot org.
Re: Ask HN: Looking for a project to volunteer on? (February 2024)
#23SEEKING PROJECTS - 20 years of coding, tons of Python and Linux, a bit of web frontend, data pipelines, and many years of core AWS products, ideally looking for projects with social impact.
Hello Daishiman, a non-profit called H4H (Hearts for the Homeless) is looking for help with finishing their app. [1] They work in disaster relief, mental health screenings, and vaccinations for the unhoused populations both in America and abroad. They actually already have some code written on GitHub. (To see, please contact kyle [at] h4hinternational [dot] org) Disclaimer: I am Soobin, a co-founder of Nsustain, whic…
Would you be aware of any energy conservation projects, like municipalities in underserved areas that don't have the money to optimize building automation systems and such?
Re: Ask HN: Looking for a project to volunteer on? (February 2024)
#24SEEKING VOLUNTEERS: BoldContacts (simple pro bono accessibility software)
https://boldcontacts.org and joel@boldcontacts.org
Seeking volunteers to do usability piloting of the BoldContacts mobile app for iPhone & iPad. The software is for people affected by vision disabilities, cognitive disabilities, and motor disabilities. What's needed: download the app, try it with someone you love, and tell me what works well and what needs improvement. Thank you!
Re: Ask HN: Looking for a project to volunteer on? (February 2024)
#25SEEKING PROJECTS: Ruby on Rails eng with 16 year experience looking for something of value to contribute to. Email in profile.
Re: Ask HN: Looking for a project to volunteer on? (February 2024)
#26SEEKING VOLUNTEERS: IronCalc spreadsheet
IronCalc is a new open source spreadsheet engine written in Rust with bindings in Python and JavaScript. The engine can be compiled to wasm and runs in the browser.
Pitch:
Playground:
https://playground.ironcalc.com/
Source Code:
IronCalc intends to be robust, light, fast, easy to use and Excel compatible.
Although IronCalc is already working there is still a long way to go. We want to build different skins like native apps, terminal applications. We need to incorporate all Excel functions. We want to add charts like maybe chartjs
The current skin is written in React/TypeScript.
If this peeks your interest send me an email hn@theuniverse.today
Re: Ask HN: Looking for a project to volunteer on? (February 2024)
#27SEEKING PROJECTS: Hello, my name is Thierry Damiba, and my language of choice is python.
In the past I have been a Data Scientist for DHS and SAIC. I’m a pretty junior engineer(4 years experience) interested in Semantic Search and Evaluation. Currently taking an LLM class with a professor at Stanford.
I’m also interested in classic ML and visualization. I can help throughout the pipeline from creating/scraping a dataset, to transforming the data, to creating a front end that is practical for users.
You can reach out to me here or at ptdamiba@gmail.com
Thanks!
Re: Ask HN: Looking for a project to volunteer on? (February 2024)
#28[meta comment]: Perhaps we should distinguish between "seeking contributors" and "seeking volunteers." I opened this thread hoping to see non-profits that need IT or software engineering support, but instead found a bunch of open-source projects looking for new contributors.
There is already socialcoder for non profits, which also provides project management and liaison. This thread would not do better than that service for non-profits, simply because it's more organized.
Re: Ask HN: Looking for a project to volunteer on? (February 2024)
#29SEEKING VOLUNTEERS: https://github.com/psugihara/FreeChat
FreeChat is a simple LLM chat app built with SwiftUI and llama.cpp server. The main goal of FreeChat is to make open, local, private models accessible to more people.
In particular, would love help with adding a search bar, model browser, or making a satellite WebRTC-based iOS app (check the issues). Unicorn contributors who are comfortable with design and dev very welcome. Designers / design focused hackers, this is an open source consumer apps that prioritizes UX!
Re: Ask HN: Looking for a project to volunteer on? (February 2024)
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