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Ask HN: Looking for contributors?

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Post by basicallydan »

There have been times in my life when I've wished that I had a fun side-project to work on, especially in a team, and especially something open-source. There have also been times when I've managed to create for myself a few side-projects which I have loads of plans for but struggle to find time to do all of.

I know there are folks out there who are in one of either of these camps right now, so with that in mind I invite you to 'advertise' your open-source projects in need of a bit of attention from some fellow interested hackers who might want to get involved. Personally, I have two at the moment that I'd like to get more done on.

Ideally, post projects with some open issues on GitHub/BitBucket/Whatever and a few details about the project (language, context, applications of the code). I'll put mine in the comments if it looks like this is useful to anybody.

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Post by feralmoan »

BipIO - https://github.com/bipio-server/bipio is all JavaScript, the biggest thing it needs right now is a migration of the configuration dashboard at https://bip.io into the public repo.

Currently a Backbone/LESS/PHP(Zend) stack and needs some CSS consolidation, a decouple from PHP, (most of this is already done), a Gruntjs build system, security audit and general cleanup and also an Apps/plugin framework

oh and there's also Templar (http://mjpearson.github.io/templar/) which could be a whole lot more awesome :D

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#4

Post by basicallydan »

sztanko wrote: post #2

Crosslet http://sztanko.github.io/crosslet/ needs a fundamental refresh/rewrite. If anyone fancies D3/maps, feel free to contribute. See here: https://github.com/sztanko/crosslet/issues/12

Mate that is a cool-ass widget, really slick! I'd love to help if I can find time. All in favour of reducing dependencies too! I'm currently working on a game which involves leaflet maps so could be some crossover.

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#7

Post by Edmond »

Not my own project though related to something I have worked on in the past and would work on in the future :http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/category/html

This is an effort to port science and math sims that were initially built as Java applets but now need to become web-based (HTML5 canvas, SVG, javascript..etc)

I posted a while back asking each developer to adopt a single sim and commit to doing a port on it.

For anyone interested I can get you in touch with folks working on the sims.

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Post by basicallydan »

Edmond wrote: post #7

Not my own project though related to something I have worked on in the past and would work on in the future : http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/category/html This is an effort to port science and math sims that were initially built as Java applets but now need to become web-based (HTML5 canvas, SVG, javascript..etc) I posted a while back asking each developer to adopt a single sim and commit to doing a port on…

This is very cool: http://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/resistance-in-a-wire/late...

Do you know how many more sims there are to port?

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#9

Post by artursapek »

I recently open-sourced my web-based vector app Mondrian.

https://github.com/artursapek/mondrian

It's a fun project to hack on for anyone interested in math, geometry, SVG, or web apps. You can try it live at http://mondrian.io.

My email is in my HN profile if there are any questions.

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#10

Post by mindcrime »

We always welcome additional community involvement for any of our projects at Fogbeam Labs. Yes, we're a company and hoping to profit from our OSS work in time, but everything is ALv2 licensed, developed in the open, in true community fashion, not Android style "throw it over the wall" whatever. Code is all on Github.

Most of our code is in Groovy, some stuff is Java. Future stuff might include anything from Clojure or Scala to R, or C++ or Julia.

Quoddy - an enterprise social network. To use an analogy "Facebook for the enterprise" - but so much more. https://github.com/fogbeam/Quoddy

Neddick - an information discovery platform. To use an analogy, think "Reddit for the enterprise". https://github.com/fogbeam/Neddick

Heceta - a search engine. Think Solr + ManifoldCF + (some other stuff for social search and semantic search). You could say the idea here is to bring the Linked Data approach inside the enterprise.

I can't promise anything definite, but as with any commercially backed open source project, the possibility is always open that if somebody contributes to the project and kicks ass, that we may be able to find (or create) a spot for that person at Fogbeam at some point.

All commercial notions aside, we are working on some wicked cool stuff, especially the semantic web stuff, and would welcome anybody who wants to get involved. At worst, we'll all learn some stuff and have some fun together.

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