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Post by davedx »

Blahah wrote: post #49

We'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'…

Yes, contributors are definitely welcome on our project! We've got plenty of issues to tackle from simple fixes to big features :) Have a look at the repo or shoot us an email, team@solvers.io

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Post by volitek »

Tox (http://tox.im)

Secure, encrypted, instant messaging, voice, and video, over a distributed network, aiming to be easy enough to use to completely replace Skype.

The core is a library written in C, and there are several different clients in different languages, help on any of them or the core would be great.

https://github.com/naxuroqa/Venom (Vala/GTK+ cross platform client)

https://github.com/stal888/Poison (Objective C OS X client)

https://github.com/Astonex/Antox (Android)

https://github.com/Jman012/Toxicity (iOS)

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Post by johncole »

BrickPi, an open source LEGO robotics system for the Raspberry Pi. We have had some great contributions so far and we really need help. The BrickPi is being used in classrooms but because of our limited programming skills it is still lacking in user friendliness.

The first repo is our main python project. https://github.com/DexterInd/BrickPi_Python. This repo could really use some help with: - Better motor control. Including a robust pid controller for speed. -Vision analysis with the raspberry pi camera (so much potential for robotics!) - A way better way to program with Scratch.

Tufts University is also working on a project called blockytalky that's sort of a souped up hybrid of Google coder and Scratch. The project is mostly in Python and uses a more complex version of daemons to control software and make a really beautiful programming environment for kids! They need some help and their project is here: https://github.com/tufts-LPC/blockytalky.

The hardware is easy to get, its on Sparkfun here https://www.sparkfun.com/products/12732

If hardware is a problem for you send me a pm.

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Post by eriktrautman »

My project is emphatically beginner-friendly because it's a site for teaching web development.

We have groups of beginners work together to strengthen their skills while they are building the very website from which they are learning. All our meetings and coding sessions are not just open Hangouts but recorded on YouTube as well in case anyone would rather lurk for a while before dipping in. Check it out at http://theodinproject.com.

Also, if you're relatively beginner, a great new site for finding projects is http://agileventures.org. They are an offshoot of the edX SAAS courses and have listed a variety of do-good projects for beginners to hook onto. That site is itself open source. They've got a SCRUM meeting for one of their listed projects going on almost 24/7.

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Post by xioxox »

If you're interested in scientific visualisation, you can take a look at Veusz: https://github.com/jeremysanders/veusz

Writing a 3D vector renderer would be very helpful to support 3D plots. Also, adding some extended fitting capabilities or improving the existing data import would be very useful.

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Post by kinow »

If you are into bioinformatics and know a bit o Jenkins, biouno is looking for more curious contributors - http://biouno.org

Or if you are into QA/Testing, Nestor QA is a test management written in PHP/Laravel, still under development, but we have meeting every two weeks and have some testers helping us to shape the tool http://nestor-qa.org

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