Pasteye - https://github.com/shayanjm/pasteye is Pastebin Monitoring as a service. Essentially, the more eyes we have on the repo, the better the service becomes. Looking for contributors to push towards v0.2.0 release - where the service becomes 'really' useful. The project roadmap is included in the repo!
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Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?
#42You can of course, contribute to KDE.
The community is welcoming, appreciative, understanding and extremely supportive. KDE project includes:
Lots of libraries
Hundreds of applications
An office suite
Different shells (Desktop, Tablet, Media Center)
Lots of artwork, including a complete icon-set, custom font, wallpapers, etc.
You will get experience with real team-work with different people across the globe. Active projects are developed at a very fast pace.
Nice thing about contributing to a project like KDE is that your work will rich millions of users.
More importantly, you are contributing to a community which has an agenda: Free Software.
Take a look at KDE's Junior-Jobs [0]. These are issues which could be easily fixed by newcomers.
[0] https://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=junior-jobs&bug_st...
Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?
#43libHN - https://github.com/bennyguitar/libHN
News/YC iOS App - https://github.com/bennyguitar/News-YC---iPhone
The app uses the libHN library for handling all requests/responses to HackerNews and is mostly just a visual representation of the data. Right now it allows logging in, viewing your own submissions, submitting posts, and submitting comments.
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Known Bugs
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Sometimes adding a comment crashes the app. I'm not handling an exception somewhere, I just honestly haven't had time to find it.
The landscape view for submitting posts/comments is terrible from a user experience stand point. I know there's some interesting stuff that can be done with NSAutoLayoutConstraints but I haven't had too much time to mess with this either. I think better keyboard frame management can be accomplished too.
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Additional Features
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I would like the ability to see comments for a user (similar to clicking "threads" at the top). The data request/response part of this needs to happen in libHN, and the user interface can be similar to the CommentsViewController in the app.
I also would like to just go ahead and namespace the app's classes too, either HN or NYC. I like NYC (love it, heh) because HN is used for libHN and I'd kind of like that library to be a separate entity from the actual app.
Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?
#44CKAN https://github.com/ckan/ckan is another project looking for new contributors.
It's a Python project, that produces a data portal, used by data.gov, data.gov.uk, dados.gov.br, and quite a few others around the world (see http://ckan.org/instances/ for some more).
You could be part of making the world a more transparent place, enabling people to find (and use) data more easily.
Our contribution guide is at http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/contributing/index.html. Issues are in GitHub, and we're sometimes about in irc://irc.freenode.net#ckan.
Can you do it, yes CKAN.
Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?
#45We 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 J…
Any plans for a Firefox iOS browser? I know UIWebViews use webkit, but I think it'd be pretty cool to have a good Firefox mobile experience on the app store. I primarily use Chrome for iOS, and I think it could be way better.
I develop natively for iOS and would definitely down to help out in any way possible there.
Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?
#46We 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 J…
Any plans for a Firefox iOS browser? I know UIWebViews use webkit, but I think it'd be pretty cool to have a good Firefox mobile experience on the app store. I primarily use Chrome for iOS, and I think it could be way better. I develop natively for iOS and would definitely down to help out in any way possible there.
I forget the nitty gritty details, but as I understand it: Apple's restrictions dictating what can and can't go in iOS apps makes it impossible for us to use Gecko on iOS.
Edit: Here is a more thorough answer: http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/945460#answer-392...
Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?
#47BackgridJS - http://backgridjs.com/
Backgrid.js is a set of components for building semantic and easily stylable data grid widgets using Backbone.js.
There are a number of features I'd like to implement soon.
- Infinite paging - Fixed header - Column auto-fit - Column resizing - Icicle tree row and cells for multi-dimensional nested data
This project's been around for a little more than 1 year and has already sprung up dozens of different extensions. I look forward to working with whoever is interested in contributing.
Take a look at this ticket if interested:
Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?
#48Boost.Compute (https://github.com/kylelutz/compute) is a C++ GPGPU based on OpenCL.
We're always looking for more contributors with knowledge of C++ and an interest in GPU computing.
Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?
#49We're building a site, http://solvers.io, where you can give your skills to projects that are trying to improve the world.
We've got projects including helping charities with websites, making software to liberate knowledge, contributing to farming robots and helping develop better yielding crops.
I encourage everyone here to post their projects to solvers - we've already brought some really cool teams together.
You're also very welcome to contribute to solvers itself: http://github.com/solvers/solvers
Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Any plans for a Firefox iOS browser? I know UIWebViews use webkit, but I think it'd be pretty cool to have a good Firefox mobile experience on the app store. I primarily use Chrome for iOS, and I think it could be way better. I develop natively for iOS and would definitely down to help out in any way possible there.
I forget the nitty gritty details, but as I understand it: Apple's restrictions dictating what can and can't go in iOS apps makes it impossible for us to use Gecko on iOS. Edit: Here is a more thorough answer: http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/945460#answer-392...
Ahh okay, I knew Safari was going to be the end all, be all of performant web browsers using strictly native Objective-C (and it uses webkit too I believe). I notice that you're looking for C++ help above, and was thinking that maybe native mixed with C++ could produce a nice user experience that people would crave on iOS.
Haha I'm kind of just spitballing ideas here - I think not having Chrome sync and Safari sync is a good feature of iOS web browsers in a lot of different use cases. Plus a slim, portable Firefox clone could be pretty interesting to duke it out with those two as well as Dolphin and some other web browsers for the platform.