Ask HN: Looking for contributors? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?

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Post by teebrz » Fri, Mar 07, 2014, 7:20 PM UTC

Higgs is looking for contributors.

Higgs is a JIT compiler for JavaScript targeting x86-64 platforms. The core is written in D, but most of the runtime/libs are written in JS.

You can contribute by testing, suggesting features, submitting PRs with new libraries (graphics, sqlite, etc), more tests, bug-fixes, documentation, and more.

We're very welcoming and will assist anyone wanting to contribute. Come hang out with us in #higgsjs on freenode (heck, come hang out even if you don't want to contribute) or check out the issues on Github:

https://github.com/maximecb/Higgs

Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?

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Post by suyash » Fri, Mar 07, 2014, 7:23 PM UTC

I've been looking for some interesting volunteer work for non-profit, open source projects and if we can have this post every month with clear project description, goals, where they need help and how to help. I think it would be very well received by the HN community and would benefit all parties.

Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?

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Post by antonius » Fri, Mar 07, 2014, 7:26 PM UTC

artursapek wrote: post #9

I recently open-sourced my web-based vector app Mondrian. https://github.com/artursapek/mondrian It's a fun project to hack on for anyone interested in math, geometry, SVG, or web apps. You can try it live at http://mondrian.io . My email is in my HN profile if there are any questions.

Looks neat. I'm also commenting here so I can remember to come back to this in a few weeks time!

Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?

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Post by MrQuincle » Fri, Mar 07, 2014, 7:37 PM UTC

It's kind of the "same old" perhaps, but we're working on an open-source internet of things platform. Our background is robotics, so we focus a lot on high bandwidth applications, not just simple sensors, but also algorithms and computer vision.

See: http://dobots.github.io/aim

Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?

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Post by jgh » Fri, Mar 07, 2014, 7:42 PM UTC

I'd be interested in contributors helping out with my project. It's kind of in a nascent stage, but I have developed a library for streaming from iOS with it.

http://www.github.com/jamesghurley/VideoCore

It's a real-time a/v capture/transform/encode/output library (currently iOS-only, but I want to bring it to other platforms at some point)

It is written in C++ and some Objective-C.

Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?

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Post by vitorbaptistaa » Fri, Mar 07, 2014, 7:47 PM UTC

adamamyl wrote: post #44

CKAN 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://…

There're many issues marked "Good for contribution" now in https://github.com/ckan/ckan/issues?labels=Good+for+Contribu..., which are a good place to start hacking.

It's a Python webapp made in Pylons.

Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?

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Post by nessup » Fri, Mar 07, 2014, 7:49 PM UTC

Might be up your alley: I'm working on a set of free music quizzes. One prototype is up at http://kanyetest.com. If you're interested, feel free to reach out! I'm @dannibles on twitter.

Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?

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Post by coderaptor » Fri, Mar 07, 2014, 7:58 PM UTC

Just getting Stubby going (https://github.com/jkassemi/stubby) - and it could use some more love.

It's a suite of tools that focus around declarative configuration of various project environments. For instance, the Stubfile.json can contain the references to your staging and production servers, and you can swap your system to view either staging or production from the command line. Additionally it supports stub packages, so you could theoretically write a GitHub API stub (think pre-configured and packaged webmock stubs) and distribute to other devs over github.

My company's building this out to assist with dev/QA and a migration to docker, so there's some semblance of a team.

Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?

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Post by lnanek2 » Fri, Mar 07, 2014, 8:00 PM UTC

A group of us HN'ers just started working on a Tinder like site/app for super easy digital BitCoin purchases. Swipe to buy, or swipe to see more. Contributions welcome! https://github.com/lnanek/GumDrop/ https://github.com/archerabi/DigitalMarketPlace

Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?

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Post by chrislloyd » Fri, Mar 07, 2014, 8:03 PM UTC

Helpful (http://helpful.io). Ruby on Rails helpdesk software trying to make things like ZenDesk & Desk.com suck less. Github: https://github.com/asm-helpful/helpful-web. We've been getting guidance from Kevin Hale (a YC partner) on his vision for the perfect support app. We also do something kind of cool where we share the ownership (and profit) of the app between the contributors: https://assemblymade.com/helpful. Anybody is welcome to be "Helpful" and join the great team that we have building it.