Ask HN: Looking for a project to volunteer on? (February 2024) • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by simonw » Thu, Feb 01, 2024, 10:35 PM UTC

20after4 wrote: post #38

thierrydamiba wrote: post #27

SEEKING 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 data…

You might like the Datasette project: https://datasette.io/ I don't think they are desperate for contributions but it's a welcoming environment and a fun project to hack on. You'll learn a lot just from reading the source and the incredibly informative PRs. The creator is a really talented developer with a great blog which shows up on the HN front page often.

Thanks for suggesting us!

One of the nice things about Datasette is that it's based around plugins, which I think are a really great way to contribute to an open source project - you get to build out new functionality without even needing to wait on pull requests from the maintainer.

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

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Post by mamcx » Thu, Feb 01, 2024, 10:41 PM UTC

SEEKING VOLUNTEERS: TablaM relational language (https://tablam.org)

TablaM is an in-progress programming language to provide a more ergonomic experience for building data-oriented applications.

This means that where most languages are focused on low-level details or engineering at large, TablaM is tailored with some small & big design decisions to make it enjoyable to write applications for e-commerce, finance, ERPs, and similar.

Cool things:

- TablaM marry the array + relational models. It means we should get very little need for manual loops and all the ops are vectorized.

- All the things are encoded as "tables", so you should be able to say the equivalent of `select * from file.open("a.txt") where line = "\n"`

- And then you could `join` `vecs & btrees & hashmap & files...`

- And then we have a standardized CRUD interface, so not `vec::push | btree::insert`

The code is in Rust. The major next stage is to add a parsing infra that allows to show nice errors like https://docs.rs/ariadne/latest/ariadne/index.html

Source Code:

https://github.com/Tablam/TablaM/

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

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Post by giaour » Thu, Feb 01, 2024, 11:17 PM UTC

whatyesaid wrote: post #28

giaour wrote: post #12

[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.

By the same logic, there is already Indeed, Monster, Dice, and LinkedIn, so the "Who is hiring?" thread would not do better than those services.

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

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Post by whatyesaid » Fri, Feb 02, 2024, 8:52 PM UTC

giaour wrote: post #53

whatyesaid wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

By the same logic, there is already Indeed, Monster, Dice, and LinkedIn, so the "Who is hiring?" thread would not do better than those services.

That service does a lot of the matching that you need and provides all roles from PM to designers to programmers. It's unquestionably better as you're dealing with volunteers. Unless you're picky with who you select and then lucky for them to have enough continued time for you.

Companies just want a resume and straight to interviews.

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

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Post by TharunPasam » Sat, Feb 03, 2024, 1:58 PM UTC

petrosilius wrote: post #36

SEEKING VOLUNTEERS: https://searchwing.org/ Search&Rescue Drones https://gitlab.com/searchwing SearchWing is a german based (berlin,augsburg) open source hard- and software project which designs, build and operate fixed wing drones for search&rescue operations on the open sea. We mainly operate in the mediterranean sea in cooperation with other NGOs, who actually operate rescue ships to search for people in distress…

Hi, I am interested in this project.

We can further discuss at psm.thrn@gmail.com

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

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Post by mdwalters » Tue, Feb 06, 2024, 4:18 PM UTC

giaour wrote: post #12

[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.

sorry for the confusion, i'll be sure to fix it for next month

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

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Post by TharunPasam » Tue, Feb 13, 2024, 4:42 PM UTC

SEEKING PROJECTS

Hi there!

My name is Tharun Pasam, and I'm a fresher with a passion for machine learning. I have recently completed my studies and have been diving deep into the world of AI and ML. I have gained hands-on experience through projects that I've worked on and uploaded to my GitHub profile (github.com/TharunPasam).

In terms of programming languages, I am proficient in Python, which is widely used in the machine learning community. I have also dabbled in languages like Java and C++ during my academic journey.

Some of the projects I've volunteered on or created include:

Machine Learning Model Regularization. Image Processing with Autoencoders. Neural Network Implementation from Scratch in TensorFlow.

I'm eager to apply my skills and knowledge to real-world projects and continue learning and growing in the field of machine learning. If you have any opportunities available or if you'd like to discuss potential collaborations, please feel free to reach out to me at psm.thrn@gmail.com.

Looking forward to hearing from you!