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Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?

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Post by Edmond »

basicallydan wrote: post #8
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?

A LOT: http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/category/new

It is indeed very cool, if they can all be ported to modern web, you can do a lot of cool things with them.

here's an example of some work I did a while back that uses those sims in a digital notebook type environment: http://schoolnotez.com/

Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?

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Post by ernestipark »

xBoard: https://github.com/eipark/xboard

xBoard is a canvas based drawing tool like many others - except it can be recorded and played back like video. There are many iPad sketch recorders, but this one works right in your browser.

I originally wrote this in about a week for a college senior project, and haven't been able to give it much love since. I've poked into adding web audio recording with the goal of creating a full Khan-academy like tutorial recorder.

Contact me if you're interested!

Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?

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Post by Sambdala »

Prove It! - https://github.com/ConceptPending/proveit

Given the recent spat of insolvent Bitcoin sites, I whipped together a project that will allow any site that holds customer Crypto Currency funds to verify to all customers and the public that they're solvent.

It also allows anyone to host a third-party verification site (work in progress) that will let someone copy/paste some JSON and then explain to the end-user whether they should trust the site they're using and why.

There's a Python and JS implementation, and I'd like to add more languages. I also need to finish the web verification and make sure everything is explained clearly.

Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?

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Post by morganherlocker »

turf - geospatial analysis engine written in node.js. The goal is to provide a high level gis scripting api similar to arcpy (but much faster and open source). Anyone interested in maps or stats might find it interesting.

https://github.com/morganherlocker/turf

If you do not have expertise in computational geometry or geospatial analysis:

1) I would be happy to share whatever knowledge I have and tee up a few easier issues to work on

2) Feature requests, testing, design (hoping to get a dedicated site up and running), and help with docs are also extremely valuable.

Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?

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Post by chuckharmston »

We love community contributors at Mozilla!

I personally work on Marketplace [1], the app store for open web apps [2]. Our properties run client-side apps (HTML/CSS/JavaScript) with a Python/Django API server. Many other options are available depending on your skills and interests:

- If you know C++, for instance, you can contribute to the core layers of Firefox, Firefox OS, and other Mozilla products.

- If you know JavaScript or HTML/CSS, you can contribute to the front-end of Firefox, or to Gaia, the application layer of Firefox OS.

- If you know Java, you can contribute to Firefox Mobile.

- If you know Python, you can contribute to our web services, including Firefox Sync or Persona.

- If you know Make, shell, Perl, or Python, you can contribute to our build system.

- If you know C, you can contribute to a number of low-level and third-party libraries that we use as part of the Mozilla codebase.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Introduction

http://whatcanidoformozilla.org

Feel free to reach out if you're interested (email in profile), and I'd be happy to either help you find something or put you in touch with somebody who can.

[1] https://marketplace.firefox.com/

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Apps/Quickstart/Build/In...

Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?

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Post by memset »

ClassicUPS: A Useful UPS Library

This is, hands-down, the best and most useful Python wrapper around the UPS API. Use it to track packages, track the status, delivery dates, create shipping labels - everything you'd want to do!

Their API has a ton of features. I could use help with unit tests, documentation, and, of course, adding more useful UPS features to the library itself!

https://github.com/classicspecs/ClassicUPS

Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?

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Post by checker659 »

ernestipark wrote: post #14

xBoard: https://github.com/eipark/xboard xBoard is a canvas based drawing tool like many others - except it can be recorded and played back like video. There are many iPad sketch recorders, but this one works right in your browser. I originally wrote this in about a week for a college senior project, and haven't been able to give it much love since. I've poked into adding web audio recording with the goal of creating…

:) I've been working on something similar but a desktop version and written in C++.
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