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

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Post by wombatpm »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #16

I'm skeptical that this does anything. I'd wager that just about nobody is sitting around with all this energy waiting to contribute to a project they've never used and just heard about in an HN thread. I'm sure you get some commitments of people who say they will help. Just like people say they'll pay for your product once you build it and people who say they'll go to an event 6 months from now. It's hard enough to…

I just took a new role that moves me out of day-to-day coding. I clicked into this thread looking to find a python project that needs help so that I can keep my coding skills sharp.

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

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Post by pentamassiv »

enigo - Cross platform input simulation in Rust [1]

enigo tries to make it easy for developers to simulate key presses or mouse movements on Linux, Windows and macOS. I try to hide the differences between operating systems and make it as simple as possible. It is the most popular crate to do so according to crates.io, but there are still a number of issues.

A number of cool project use it such as - plock: Query and stream the output of an LLM from anywhere you can type [2] - RustDesk: Remote Access and Support Software (forked enigo) [3]

I'm close to running integration tests in the CI to prevent regressions and find platform differences, but it's not fully working yet. If someone could get it over the finish line, that would be great.

For Linux there is X11 but also basic Wayland implementation and a libei one, but they only work properly for US keyboards.

[1] https://github.com/enigo-rs/enigo [2] https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/plock [3] https://rustdesk.com/

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

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Post by memset »

Plain Old Recipe: takes online recipes and removes the cruft.

https://www.plainoldrecipe.com https://github.com/poundifdef/plainoldrecipe

Things I want to do:

1. Improved print-friendly format 2. Ability to format to arbitrary sizes (for example, format for index cards) 3. Smarter layouts. For example, if a recipe says "add the chicken stock" in a step it would be great if it could identify how much ("1 cup") like some apps do.

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

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Post by rodrodriguez »

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

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Post by lytedev »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #16

I'm skeptical that this does anything. I'd wager that just about nobody is sitting around with all this energy waiting to contribute to a project they've never used and just heard about in an HN thread. I'm sure you get some commitments of people who say they will help. Just like people say they'll pay for your product once you build it and people who say they'll go to an event 6 months from now. It's hard enough to…

While I don't have any free time to contribute, I do like hearing about cool stuff out there that people care about and I pass the world along! Word of mouth and fun is at least "anything"!

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

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Post by throw_a_grenade »

I'd say "projects that you personaly use". If you use a piece of software or a linux distro, please contribute back, "pay" for it forward.

So I shall not suggest any particular piece, everyone uses different set of Free Software, and that's how we all like it.

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

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Post by lytedev »

mcmcmc wrote: post #28
samatman wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 o…

Personally I find it funny one of the most valuable companies in the world is begging for free help maintaining their software. Gotta be cheap to get rich I guess.

Some open source projects don't necessarily want help. I don't think adding a help-wanted tag qualifies for begging as much as letting you know that contributors are actually welcome if you're interested.

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

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Post by aothms »

IfcOpenShell - https://ifcopenshell.org - https://github.com/IfcOpenShell/IfcOpenShell

An open-source toolkit for developing digital platforms in the built environment. With IfcOpenShell, you can read, write, and modify Building Information Models (BIM) using the IFC standard — a versatile and open digital language spanning the entire lifecycle of buildings, from design to construction and beyond.

Now including Bonsai, a Blender-based 3D editor to create and edit multidisciplinary information within IFC models.

The built environment is a major contributor to emissions, making sustainability in design, construction, and operations an area we can work on with data-driven decisions unlocked by open source tools.

CAD/BIM has long faced lock-in by the proprietary nature of traditional tools. We aim to change that.

C++ / Python / 3D / Computational geometry / CAD / BIM

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

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Post by etewiah »

I'd love to resurrect my open source real estate website builder:

https://github.com/etewiah/property_web_builder

I was quite active with updating it a few years ago but haven't had the time to work on it recently.

On another project of mine I have been using aider and co-pilot and realised I could bring property_web_builder back to life with these tools. It would motivate me massively to do this if at least one or two other people were willing to work with me on this.

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