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Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?

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Post by gordonguthrie »

I am working on LuvvieScript, an Erlang dialect that runs in the browser. The aim is to get a functional run-time and abstraction layer for web pages that talk to Erlang-OTP cluster. Details here http://luvv.ie/mission.html

Early stage project, lots of opportunities to do hard stuff (immutable datastructures in JS, AST-to-AST transpilers, offline-first run times, etc etc)

We're are in the Google Summer Of a Code too, so if you are a student you could get paid over the summer as well...

Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?

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Post by codez »

Anyone is more than welcome to help out with some of the projects I have on our even suggest some new ones to collab on. I have a few ideas.

Tyto: http://jh3y.github.io/tyto

Still needs improvement but is a purely html,js, CSS project using a nice simple set up for people to get involved with without trouble.

Also fleshing out a UI component library built with the future in mind.

Hit me up if interested: hey.jhey@live.co.uk

Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?

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Post by jtheory »

pekk wrote: post #92
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

That probably wasn't the best phrasing, but the point seems to have been that the current contributors can't keep up with new issues (so more contributors might address that).

Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?

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Post by phantom_oracle »

eriktrautman wrote: post #64

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://th…

This is rather interesting. I tried launching something similar, with the exact same philosophy in mind.

Would you like to discuss your findings/feedback/success so far?

Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?

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Post by shazow »

If you're looking for something lower-commitment, urllib3 could use an extra pair of eyes or two for code reviews.

urllib3 is probably one of Python's most-installed third-party packages. It powers the core of pip, requests, and many other great libraries who need to do HTTP requests in Python. That's probably millions of developers, altogether. :)

We have new PRs fairly regularly, but this one could use attention right now: https://github.com/shazow/urllib3/pull/326

We've been working on adding more complex Retry configuration support but getting the API and code design just right is tricky. :)

Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?

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Post by SteveMorin »

A team of us are working on the Big Data pipeline for Hadoop and Streaming Technologies.

We are a team of 5 working on it now and looking for other people looking to work on things like Nginx, Yarn/Hadoop, Kafka and Presto

If your interested email me at steve@demandcube.com

https://github.com/DemandCube/NeverwinterDP https://github.com/DemandCube/Sparkngin https://github.com/DemandCube/Scribengin

Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?

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Post by Blahah »

nstark wrote: post #75
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'…

Great idea - I'm looking forward to taking a look at some of these projects. Your website also looks like it needs a re-design - if you'd like some help with it, let me know.

Hey, thanks! We'd love design help - feel free to drop me a line (richard@solvers.io), or just start taking part on Github.

Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?

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Post by gsaines »

Teach the world to code with CodeCombat. We're a YC W14 company that open sourced everything back in January. Our game teaches complete newbies JavaScript, but we also offer levels for advanced devs. Our goal is to become the game that teaches everyone to program.

We have a bunch of issues for everyone from senior devs to people who don't know how to program over on our repo: https://github.com/codecombat/codecombat

If you are looking for independent projects that won't require as much help from us, you can check out our list of Google Summer of Code example projects: https://github.com/codecombat/codecombat/wiki/Summer-Project...

We also just launched a ChallengePost challenge to encourage contributors to submit transpilers so we can make the game available in different languages: http://codecombat.challengepost.com/

If you have any problems or need help, the founders (myself included) spend most of the day helping people get involved in our public Hipchat room: http://www.hipchat.com/g3plnOKqa

Although code submissions are great, the highest value contribution you could make at the moment is to try our first multiplayer level and give us feedback: http://codecombat.com/play/ladder/dungeon-arena

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