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Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?

#51
If you're interested in graphics, we put together an engine for ascii/unicode raytracing in the browser: https://github.com/trevlovett/AsciiTracer

Demo here: http://trevlovett.github.io/AsciiTracer/asciitracer.html

Some work needs to be done to massage the code into a proper library that could be used for demos & games.

Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?

#52

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…

Just wanted to let you know that I studied your code couple of months ago. It got me interested in the LZW compression algorithm, which I studied and learned a lot from. Thanks for sharing.

Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?

#53
I'm a Hacker Schooler (hackerschool.com) working on two open-source projects in Python and I'd highly appreciate any contributions! The projects are still in the alpha stage, so there's plenty room for creativity and for contributing to the core architecture of them beyond simple bugfixes. Here are the details:

Checkmate (https://github.com/adewes/python-checkmate):

Checkmate is a new Python tool for static code analysis. It provides a global view of code quality in a project and focuses on giving simple, actionable advise to the user.

Blitz-DB (https://github.com/adewes/blitz-db):

Blitz-DB is a file-based document database. It is written in Python and doesn't have any external dependencies.

Help with any of these projects is highly welcome, feel free to e-mail me for more details (andreas.dewes@gmail.com) :)

Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?

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Cylinder (C/Obj-C/Lua) http://github.com/rweichler/cylinder

It's a "tweak" for jailbroken iOS. Basically what it does is it adds animations to the homescreen, like what Android can do.

The cool thing about it is that users can code their own animations in Lua. For example here's a script for cube: http://github.com/rweichler/cylinder/tree/master/tweak/scrip...

It's a relatively simple project. It's pretty popular, had about 50K users at the moment. I kinda wish I had other contributors cause I'm the only one working on it atm.

Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?

#55
JStruct - http://github.com/sebinsua/jstruct

The idea is "JSON as the definition language of JSON transformations."

I'm not at the implementation stage yet, hence the prototype is weak (it might even be broken.)

I came up with the idea and have sketched out a few ways that I can imagine it working, but need to bounce ideas off others before I continue.

Take a look. Conceptually where would you want to go with this? Architecturally how would you get there?

If I can get some contributors it would be awesome. There's quite a bit of deep thought that will need to go into refining how much it tries to handle, what the interfaces look like, and how to make it perform well.

I definitely plan to continue work on it soon, but need two or three heads to do this as well as I believe it deserves.

Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?

#56
It isn't my project but OAuthlib needs some help, including Flask-OAuthlib. The contributors there are slow to respond to open issues. OAuthlib is trying to make OAuth1 and OAuth2 easier to implement but the contributors get in the way of accomplishing this when they don't respond promptly to issues.

OAuthlib: https://github.com/idan/oauthlib

Flask-OAuthlib: https://github.com/lepture/flask-oauthlib

Requests-OAuthlib: https://github.com/requests/requests-oauthlib

Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?

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Nimrod - http://nimrod-lang.org - http://github.com/Araq/Nimrod

Nimrod is a "new" systems programming language which is statically typed, uses space delimited blocks (like Python) and compiles to C to create very fast and dependency free executables.

We have a growing community with a couple of collaborators already who love to help newcomers. There is plenty to do, the most important of which is fixing compiler bugs but I'm certain that most people would not like to start with that. There are of course many other ways you can contribute. You may wish to write libraries in Nimrod and make them available for other Nimrod programmers, you can improve the standard library documentation and the tutorials, or you can simply write software in Nimrod and give us feedback about the language and the compiler.

If you're interested then talk to us on IRC (#nimrod on Freenode) or our forum (http://forum.nimrod-lang.org).

Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?

#58
post #36

This would be a great addition to the monthly "Who's Hiring" and "Freelancers" posts that go up. Not sure who runs the whoishiring account but maybe they could consider this. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring

I would really like this. I'm looking for something to contribute to, and threads like this are the ideal place to find projects.

Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?

#59
A bunch of projects that could use your help.

Hacker News API - https://github.com/karan/HackerNewsAPI

Fully functional HN API as a Python module. It has a bunch of issues such as adding more end-points for getting more data. I could really use someone's help here.

HNIfy - https://github.com/karan/HNify

This is the REST port of the previously-mentioned API. It has a bunch of issues - not all methods have been ported, no unit tests, very slow sometimes etc. The biggest issue is to add a crawler and a database so the API doesn't have to call HN every time a request is received.

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Both MIT licensed. Free to use and modify. Fork and send PR's, Happy to merge.

Let me know if there are any questions.

Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?

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post #36

This would be a great addition to the monthly "Who's Hiring" and "Freelancers" posts that go up. Not sure who runs the whoishiring account but maybe they could consider this. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring

I would really like this. I'm looking for something to contribute to, and threads like this are the ideal place to find projects.

Awesome - you perfectly represent 50% of the people I posted it for. Woo!
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