Ask HN: Looking for a project to volunteer on? (February 2024)

Here's a quick video explaining it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faxNDhOjlh4

Piano Gym is a learning and practice ecosystem focused on prioritizing music theory and performance skills acquisition through the use of flash cards and sheet music. We use flash cards in order to pair them with modern learning techniques like spaced repetition, graded feedback, and progress tracking so that you can practice material and work through content that is managed by Piano Gym, and all you have to do is enroll in a school/course/lesson and do your reps! Just show up every day and do 15 minutes of reviews. You're going to make progress.

Our website uses the Piano to navigate exercises as well as regular keyboard/mouse input. We work on browser technology and are looking to eventually make it mobile devices.

We provide content creation for everyone so that anyone can make their own schools/courses/lessons and the best part is each school gets its own landing page.

For example we're using the methods book from https://freepianomethod.com which is provided by Mayron Cole, and if you wanted to practice it without signing up or enrolling you could easily visit this link: https://pianogym.com/schools/Mayron%20Cole%20Method

Even better when you find the piece you want to practice you can share it directly like so: https://pianogym.com/schools/Mayron%20Cole%20Method?sheet_mu...

Our goal is to do this for free. We believe that no one should be blocked from learning. And one of the issues with this at the moment is that our team is very small and has been currently working nights and weekends to make this happen. We would love the chance to add a technical member to our team in order to build this product out to its full vision.

Areas of work we need help with

- UI/UX

- Refining the piano playing game feel

- Adding support for external piano pitch detection

- Creating a community

If you're interested please feel free to direct message me or my email DoYourReps@gmail.com

we are a small team associated with EleutherAI. looking to push the frontier of open source language models through self-play. so far we have implemented SPIN. compute included.

email tyoma9k@gmail.com

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ROS is the open source software powering robots all over the globe. The project needs volunteers in every capacity, from core robotics software to visualization, data logging, and developer resources. Gazebo is our sibling library used to simulate robots prior to deploying code. Many of our repositories have "Good First Issue" tags for new contributors.

Source code and community resources for ROS, like Discord and Discourse, are all listed here:

https://github.com/ros2

Source code and resources for Gazebo are available here:

https://github.com/gazebosim

To get a sense of what people are doing with ROS check out the videos from our yearly developer conference ROSCon.

https://roscon.ros.org/2023/

If you are looking for some help getting started swing by our Discord server:

https://discord.com/servers/open-robotics-107782554369892765...

Toontown: Corporate Clash is a non-profit, fan-made revival of the defunct Disney MMORPG, Toontown Online, with a brand new storyline, new mechanics and new characters. We're committed to pushing the genre of Toontown Online forward - [check out the trailer for our latest update](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImehBT4ChVI) on what we've done for the game. We've also used our home-grown IP to raise funds for charity; last year [we raised $22k for Childre's Miracle Network Hospitals](https://corporateclash.net/news/article/134) by licensing our IP to be made into plushies.

We get anywhere between 400 and 600 concurrent players on a typical day, and up to 2000 players when a major update launches. Our team consists of 100+ passionate volunteers in all stages of their careers, with many having used the experience gained at our project to help them secure jobs and further opportunities in the industry.

We use a wide variety of languages and frameworks:

* Game - Panda3D (Python code, C++ engine), MongoDB / Postgres

* Networking - HAProxy and Astron (C++, but we're also looking at adopting Rust)

* Web - Our legacy stack is PHP + Laravel + Vue, with the new stack being based on TypeScript (Next.js, Hono/Elysia, Cloudflare Workers)

* Launcher - PyQt at the moment, but we're looking to adopt Tauri (TypeScript + Rust)

* Hosting - Cloudflare Workers / Pages, AWS, Azure, GCP (wherever free credits we can get)

* Infra - Docker

If you are an aspiring tech person who wants real-life experience in a large-scale project, we would love to hear from you!

(NOTE: We typically ask for all applicants to have at least 3 months of in-game gameplay.)

https://corporateclash.net/help/apply