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Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate? (April 2022)

#21
From my recent post: "The thing that could bring the most change to the world is a system that finds everybody a thousand or more best friends based on psychological proximity and compatibility. Don’t tell me it’s impossible to predict whether two people are likely to get along or not based on a bunch of factors that can be analyzed with various techniques including AI. What would the world look like if every single person had a bunch of people who get them because they are almost exactly like them or are highly compatible although different? Imagine having a huge support group that roots for each cause of yours because it’s also theirs. What could you all do together, pulling in the same direction, inspiring each other and contributing your best? I want all of the existing social networks to create a version of this. Create groups out of thin air. You have the data, so use it for something better than serving ads with efficient precision."

I've been developing ideas on how to match people, but I can't code.

I also want a drawing app that hides all my attempts at a stroke and lets me pick the best one AFTER I'm done generating them: http://zeroprecedent.com/lore/flipmark.html

martin dot nenov at gmail dot com

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate? (April 2022)

#22

I'm working on sioyek, an open source PDF viewer desgined for reading research papers and textbooks. Any contribution is welcome, but I'm mainly looking for maintainers for linux packages. https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek

Hi, do you have any idea how one goes about making a liquid mode for mobile pdf readers like the adobe pdf app? I am often commuting and have to read on my mobile but I am limited by the fact that adobe only allows 200 pages or less files to be rendered to liquid mode. I would be interested in helping develop this app ( I am not a programmer by profession but have been learning for a few years on my part time)

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate? (April 2022)

#23
I am doing research on how to measure the energy consumption and thus carbon emission of software.

The toolchain will be open-source and the data free use. Currently it is only a prototype and there are many open research questions to be solved.

If any of you is interested in this topic or would like to connect please feel free to contact me.

Currently we are a team of two and I also have backed the research through my own company and can supply compensation for the open source work. Would love to find like minded people in this domain.

https://github.com/green-coding-berlin/green-metrics-tool / https://www.green-coding.org

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate? (April 2022)

#24

I'm working on sioyek, an open source PDF viewer desgined for reading research papers and textbooks. Any contribution is welcome, but I'm mainly looking for maintainers for linux packages. https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek

Hi, do you have any idea how one goes about making a liquid mode for mobile pdf readers like the adobe pdf app? I am often commuting and have to read on my mobile but I am limited by the fact that adobe only allows 200 pages or less files to be rendered to liquid mode. I would be interested in helping develop this app ( I am not a programmer by profession but have been learning for a few years on my part time)

Sorry I have no idea about that. But a quick and dirty fix for your problem could be to split your pdf file into multiple files each with less than 200 pages.

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate? (April 2022)

#25
Sure, would love to collaborate on the Spinup project. It's in its early stage, so a lot of opportunities to have a huge impact.

https://github.com/spinup-host/spinup. Any open source RDS alternative.

We do have a bi-weekly standup and a small group of 5 members. Most of us just want to learn Go, Docker and Databases. Feel free to ask any questions. Thanks.

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate? (April 2022)

#26
post #23

I am doing research on how to measure the energy consumption and thus carbon emission of software. The toolchain will be open-source and the data free use. Currently it is only a prototype and there are many open research questions to be solved. If any of you is interested in this topic or would like to connect please feel free to contact me. Currently we are a team of two and I also have backed the research through…

Do you know about https://eco.kde.org, it's a project under the kde umbrella (but not only for kde) that is sponsored by the German government with the goal of both doing measurements and defining how a eco friendly software should work. Okular was recently awarded the blue angel certification: https://eco.kde.org/blog/2022-03-16-press-release-okular-blu...

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate? (April 2022)

#27
I've been doing a bit of work in the esports space. Two projects, the first which allows freelance coaches to leave reviews on footage that's been given to them. You can see an example of a coach using it here:

https://kilk-valorant.vodon.gg/

The other is a tool that I've built in conjunction with a coach from a French esports team which allows the coach to add footage of the individuals players in a match, synchronise the videos, then view the match while jumping around each of the individual viewpoints instantly. This is an open source tool here:

https://github.com/Rodeoclash/vodon-pro

(I have some ideas around hosted services to support the review process which could be subscription based).

At heart I'm a developer, so I'd really like to connect with someone who is both in the esports space and business focused. Contact details in my HN profile.

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate? (April 2022)

#28
post #8

For those who care about privacy, we're looking for React, backend (AWS) and ML devs, researchers, data scientist, translators, and community builders. YourDigitalRights.org is a free and open source service which helps people regain control of their online privacy by automating the process of sending data deletion requests to organisations, and then provides guidance on how to ensure that requests are resolved favou…

What can you share about the community building side of things?

So far we've done very little. That said, there's a lot of energy around the project. People are contributing in various ways, expressing support, writing about it. We'd like to bring it all together. Happy to share more, if you're interested contact us. Email is on the website.

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate? (April 2022)

#30
Next month I will post my own stuff in this thread but for this month I want to highlight the much more active efforts of the whereiseveryone crowd. Please join us in making guix great! https://git.sr.ht/~whereiseveryone/guixrus#manifesto

We have meetups also every month to discuss documentation and packaging. Next month I will also start a meetup for datalisp (which you could see as configuration meetup, i.e. how to run your own system).

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