Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?

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Post by walrus » Sat, Nov 28, 2015, 10:15 PM UTC

jensnockert wrote: post #4

Rust is generally awesome.

Agree 100%. The Rust community is excellent.

Re: Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?

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Post by billwashere » Sat, Nov 28, 2015, 10:15 PM UTC

ScummVM does! - http://scummvm.org/

Re: Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?

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Post by chaos_monkey » Sat, Nov 28, 2015, 10:15 PM UTC

joeysim wrote: post #17

I recommend looking into re:dash, which is an amazing and widely used data collaboration tool for your data. Arik Fraimovich is doing a great work with a growing community of contributors. https://github.com/getredash/redash http://redash.io/ Disclaimer: I'm the founder of EverythingMe, re:dash was born in one of our hackathons but have since become its own beast.

Can I ask what are some of the differences between redash and a tool like Apache Zeppelin?

Re: Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?

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Post by simulo » Sat, Nov 28, 2015, 10:16 PM UTC

The http://hood.ie/ community is nice. Also, I was rather happy with etherpad’s community: http://etherpad.org/

Re: Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?

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Post by forgottenpass » Sat, Nov 28, 2015, 10:17 PM UTC

Find the projects that speak to you then check in on the communities. Contributing to open source is first and foremost _work_. A community can turn you off from participating, but the motivation to contribute only comes from the product.

And you might be surprised at the difference between what it's like to contribute to any random project compared to what a "news" blogger that needs to generate hits wants you to think the average project is like.

Re: Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?

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Post by szadok » Sat, Nov 28, 2015, 10:17 PM UTC

Theforeman -Foreman is a complete lifecycle management tool for physical and virtual servers. theforeman.org github.com/theforeman

Re: Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?

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Post by epoch1970 » Sat, Nov 28, 2015, 10:19 PM UTC

aortega wrote: post #13

Openbsd.org

I've had very good experiences with the OpenBSD and the FreeBSD communities, too. As long as you do your homework and the answer you seek isn't in the documentation or FAQs, they'll go to the ends of the earth to help you out. This is really valuable for seriously hard problems.

Re: Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?

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Post by hoorayimhelping » Sat, Nov 28, 2015, 10:19 PM UTC

React. I'm constantly impressed by Ben Alpert's[1] patience and response time and ability to answer questions all over the internet.

1. http://stackoverflow.com/tags/reactjs/topusers

Re: Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?

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Post by aedocw » Sat, Nov 28, 2015, 10:19 PM UTC

I would encourage you to check out OpenStack[1]. As a community we are trying really hard to be welcoming and helpful to new contributors.

[1]http://docs.openstack.org/contributor-guide/index.html

Re: Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?

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Post by ianjorgensen » Sat, Nov 28, 2015, 10:19 PM UTC

Nightscout. Software for people with and affected by Type 1 diabetes by people with and affected by Type 1 diabetes. https://github.com/nightscout