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Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?

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Post by gsaines »

amirmc wrote: 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 definitely enjoy hearing about active open source projects that need help. I especially appreciate hearing from the people running them, it helps would-be contributors get a sense of each project's current top priorities. I would be a little concerned that big open source projects would always dominate, but that would probably be a high quality problem to deal with at a later point.

Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?

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Post by estevez »

opendais wrote: post #107
basicallydan wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I agree. I thought maybe in a month's time I'll post it again if they don't. Would be better for a bot like that, though.

Would we be better off with a site to link to that was searchable based on language/project/etc?

http://openhatch.org

Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?

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Post by Blahah »

opendais wrote: post #107
basicallydan wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I agree. I thought maybe in a month's time I'll post it again if they don't. Would be better for a bot like that, though.

Would we be better off with a site to link to that was searchable based on language/project/etc?

http://solvers.io

Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?

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Post by intull »

Shell Environments

Difficulty: Easy

Language(s): Shell Scripting

In my spare time, I'm working on a set of scripts to be able to create micro-environments in our shell to help better manage environments in the shell when we work on quite a lot of stuff.

https://github.com/sathyamvellal/shenv

Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?

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Post by ozten »

bennyg wrote: post #45
chuckharmston wrote: post #18

We love community contributors at Mozilla! I personally work on Marketplace [1], the app store for open web apps [2]. Our properties run client-side apps (HTML/CSS/JavaScript) with a Python/Django API server. Many other options are available depending on your skills and interests: - If you know C++, for instance, you can contribute to the core layers of Firefox, Firefox OS, and other Mozilla products. - If you know J…

Any plans for a Firefox iOS browser? I know UIWebViews use webkit, but I think it'd be pretty cool to have a good Firefox mobile experience on the app store. I primarily use Chrome for iOS, and I think it could be way better. I develop natively for iOS and would definitely down to help out in any way possible there.

Make it happen cap'n bennyg!

https://air.mozilla.org/product-design-at-mozilla/

No paid staff are working on this (AFAIK), but this is a pretty good sketch of how this could work in this presentation.

Re: Ask HN: Looking for contributors?

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Post by arijitraja »

This can also have a section where some people can post their ideas thats worth getting "opensourced" so that others with time, wish and resources can build that.

This will be helpful for non-tech people or techies who are too swamped with other things.

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