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Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?

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Post by bcjordan »

chrislloyd wrote: post #90

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…

I've found contributing to Helpful to be a great way to play with some fresh technologies and get production code onto GitHub while working with a team. The on-boarding steps and task tracker are excellent, even compared to larger not-for-profit FOSS projects.

- You get to use fresh technologies and learn best practices from some excellent project leads and contributors

- You earn ownership shares of future proceeds from the project

- Your contributions are open source and visible on GitHub—this can mean a lot if you later go to apply to a startup job where "point to a few projects on your GitHub" is more important than "send me a PDF of your resume"

You could do much worse per minute spent on a side project, well worth it in my opinion.

Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?

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Post by pekk »

el_guapo wrote: post #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…

How will adding people help this situation? You are already saying that contributors get in the way

Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?

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Post by dancanm »

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.

Yo Artur, it's Dan (from Hearo way back when). I just happened to be reading these comments, cool to run into you on HN. Mondrian is looking great.

Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?

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Post by dyladan »

Try Bookie. It's an open source alternative to delicious that I've been hacking on recently. They are registered as a project for Google summer of code this summer so activity has picked up recently, but the main developer struggles to find time to work on it.

https://github.com/bookieio/bookie hosted at https://bmark.us

Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?

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Post by abss »

You can contribute to SwarmESB (ESB type system for node.js) https://github.com/salboaie/swarmESB If you don't know the purpose of ESBs, with SwarmESB you will understand faster because is basically an abstraction on messages, channels, etc. that hides lot of "useless" details that surface in Java ESBs or MOMs.

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Post by akshatpradhan »

Hi! I licensed (MIT) all my Ruby on Rails applications. If you're free, I'd appreciate some UX recommendations and PR's!

Compliance chimp - a simple way to manage PCI Compliance https://github.com/akshatpradhan/compliance_chimp

Spoutlets - a simple way to share your journal for your therapist to read https://github.com/akshatpradhan/spoutlets

Lending round - a simple way to manage a small loan to an acquaintance. https://github.com/akshatpradhan/lending-round

My LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/akshatpradhan

Thank you!

Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?

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Post by hmsimha »

daleharvey wrote: post #28

PouchDB - https://github.com/daleharvey/pouchdb A reimplmentation of CouchDB in the browser based on indexedDB / webSQL, its designed as a library for web devs to build applications that work offline and sync data seamlessly when their users login to other devices. Theres a contribution guide @ https://github.com/daleharvey/pouchdb/blob/master/CONTRIBUTI... and we try to tag good patches for beginners @ https://githu…

I'm really interested in Couchdb, and have probably spent about 20-25 hours on tutorials so far (and probably another 10-20 perusing the Apache couchdb-dev mailing list archives). Honestly, I don't feel comfortable using it on anything serious yet, though I really want to get there eventually. What level of familiarity with CouchDB + indexedDB&webSQL would you suggest is necessary for a potential contributor?
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