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Ask HN: What open source projects need help?

#1

Post by aaronbrethorst »

Let's match open source projects that need help with developers looking to contribute. Think of this as "Who's Hiring" but for open source - a monthly thread to surface interesting projects that could use more hands.

Please include: Project name and description (if not widely known); Tech stack; Areas needing help (DOCS, CODE, DESIGN, etc.); Level (BEGINNER-FRIENDLY if applicable); Email address or other means of contacting you.

Ground rules:

Post only if you maintain/run the project

One post per project/suite

No commercial recruitment

No thread complaints

Developers: Only reach out if you actually want to contribute.

Re: Ask HN: What open source projects need help?

#2

Post by aaronbrethorst »

OneBusAway

A suite of real-time public transit projects that are used by millions of people every day. OneBusAway helps people find out when and where their bus will arrive, and provides them with a trip planner, too. OBA is used by transit riders everywhere from Seattle to New York City; Adelaide, Australia to Buenos Aires, Argentina.

In addition to developers, we would also benefit greatly from product management and user experience assistance.

Tech stacks in need of help:

iOS app (Swift): developers, 2+ years of experience with iOS.

Android app (Java/Kotlin): developers, 2+ years of experience with Android.

REST API Server (Java): developers, 2+ years of experience with Java.

Docs: Java developers with an interest in technical writing who can help to document our backend systems.

Find all of our projects: https://github.com/onebusaway

Join our Slack: https://join.slack.com/t/onebusaway/shared_invite/zt-2jve26v...

Reach out to me directly: aaron@onebusaway.org

Re: Ask HN: What open source projects need help?

#6

Post by m4rcs90 »

not_your_vase wrote: post #3

There is a help-wanted tag on github for this: https://github.com/topics/help-wanted (I know that GH is not the whole world, but it stores an overwhelming majority of the OSS ecosystem)

Funny that all Microsoft projects appear on top. They seem to struggle very hard.

Re: Ask HN: What open source projects need help?

#8

Post by deskr »

aaronbrethorst wrote: post #2

OneBusAway A suite of real-time public transit projects that are used by millions of people every day. OneBusAway helps people find out when and where their bus will arrive, and provides them with a trip planner, too. OBA is used by transit riders everywhere from Seattle to New York City; Adelaide, Australia to Buenos Aires, Argentina. In addition to developers, we would also benefit greatly from product management a…

I think you need a PR personnel too.

Re: Ask HN: What open source projects need help?

#9

Post by shreeshabhat043 »

Job-Scout is an open-source CLI tool that aggregates remote Machine Learning, AI, and Data Science job listings from Twitter and Hacker News. It analyzes your resume to match and rank jobs based on your skills and experience, providing you with personalized job recommendations. The project is highly customizable—users can easily tweak the search to find internships or specific roles. Contributors are welcome to join and enhance this project by adding new job sources, features, and improvements!

https://github.com/ShreeshaBhat1004/Job-scout

If you like it, Give it a star

DM me if you wanna contribute

Re: Ask HN: What open source projects need help?

#10

Post by samatman »

m4rcs90 wrote: post #6
not_your_vase wrote: post #3

There is a help-wanted tag on github for this: https://github.com/topics/help-wanted (I know that GH is not the whole world, but it stores an overwhelming majority of the OSS ecosystem)

Funny that all Microsoft projects appear on top. They seem to struggle very hard.

The list is ranked in a completely transparent way. It's anything with the help wanted tag, ordered by number of stars.

So this isn't some sneaky Microsoft thumb on the scale, the way you appear to be implying. Simpler than that: I doubt many projects know about this list (I for one just saw it for the first time), and since GitHub put it together, Microsoft codebases got the memo to add the tag.

If you want to see other popular projects at the top of this list, open up a PR to have them add the tag.

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