If you're into games at all, I would highly recommend the Godot Game Engine (http://www.godotengine.org). They are very active on IRC and in the forums. If you have a question, you'll almost certainly get an answer. They are also are very welcoming of contributions.
Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?
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Re: Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?
#122Why not start contribute to Mozilla?
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#123Re: Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?
#124I've been impressed with working on [syncthing][]. The team is very open to discuss anything that comes up, which makes it easier for me to tackle things.
I've also been impressed with the user experience of the product. Installation and configuration was much easier than I expected, and then it just runs!
[syncthing]: https://syncthing.net/
Re: Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?
#125More important to me--Which companies have kind, supportive, talented teams?
I decided to ask this exact question!
Re: Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?
#126i had a fantastic time contributing some code to the ghost.org blog platform. they are incredibly well managed, fantastically transparent, and provide a great deal of support for people contributing to the codebase. very much an a+++++++ would contribute again situation.
Probably the thing that sets any receptive project is its ability to identify areas where it needs help and setting aside well defined (and documented) projects in those areas. In many projects, there's lots of work needed to be done but the priorities aren't obvious and so lots of contributions get left on the floor because they're just not in any way priorities for the active maintainers. it takes lots of work and maturity for a project to advertise this sort of stuff which is why these situations seem few and far between.
Regardless, try to invest time in filling in the current needs of projects rather than unsolicited work. some unsolicited work (bugfixes) is easily accepted, but features are often hard to incorporate especially if they're not aligned with the short term goals of the project.
Re: Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?
#127I've found that OS communities have largely come a LONG ways over the last few years. Most are helpful and are full of smart, nice people. That said, there are always going to be a few less than cordial people in every crowd.
When picking an OS project to get involved in, there are only two suggestions I have:
1. Make sure there's a fair sized community behind it with > 1 committer (not much worse than getting involved with a project that just dies) 2. Make sure it's something that's going to hold your attention for a good while and it's something you're passionate about. Generally, contributing to OS projects isn't really a fly by night thing (of course depending on the level of involvement you're looking for). If you get involved with a project that has a great community but isn't something you're actually passionate about, chances of long term involvement aren't really high.
From personal experience, the Python community has been the most enjoyable for me to date. Filled with academics and hackers, scientists and CRUD so developers, I have yet to see another community filled with such diversity from which comes intelligent, positive discussion and results.
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#128Epic's Unreal Engine 4 team and the community around it is an amazing kind, supportive, friendly and talented group of people.
Its one of the reasons I got back into game dev and chose to use this engine.
The engine itself is state-of-the-art and the improvements per each release is AWESOME.
As the engine is a commercial offering that is open source, there are a lot of people involved. This makes it easier for new people to get onboard. They twitch on a biweekly basis http://twitch.tv/unrealengine/
Have a look at the last two release notes for an example of what they get up too.
https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/unreal-engine-49-released
https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/unreal-engine-4-10-release...
If I recall correctly, 4.11 is more a stability release then feature release. It is the release currently being developed. Check out the Trello board to see what features are being developed where
https://trello.com/b/gHooNW9I/ue4-roadmap
I'd advise to sign up for an account, link your github account, have a look through and join the forums.
I've got the same account name on there if you have any questions.
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#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agree 100%. The Rust community is excellent.
In my experience the Rust community exhibits a cloaked form of tyranny. On the surface they are very vocal about supporting 'inclusiveness' and 'non-discrimination' and 'tolerance'. Yet they use a rather harsh and subjective code of conduct to control and police the members of their community. Last I knew they even had a moderation team who doled out punishment without any due process nor any oversight of significanc…
Can you give an example?
I have some speculation as to what you're referring to, but it's easier if you just say.
Re: Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?
#130Why not start contribute to Mozilla? https://mozilla.org/en-US/contribute/
I think fixing easy bugs are the easiest way to get around and interact.