Ask HN: Who needs contributors? (October 2016)

We're helping volunteers and donors contribute to software projects for social good.

Monthly Goals:

- Refactoring work on both Elixir and Ember apps

- Build out Stripe integration so projects can start raising monthly contributions

- Redesign task UI

- Rework CSS to use flexbox and be more responsive

- Minor features in blog

Skills needed: Elixir, Phoenix, PostgreSQL, JavaScript, Ember.js, HTML, CSS, Sass, flexbox, UI and graphic design (Sketch a plus), dev ops (Docker, AWS)

Slack: http://slack.codecorps.org/

Elixir Phoenix API: https://github.com/code-corps/code-corps-api

Ember front-end: https://github.com/code-corps/code-corps-ember

WordPress blog: https://github.com/code-corps/blog.codecorps.org-site

License: MIT

Operation Code is an open source project that helps military, guard & reserve troops, veterans and their families get coding and building software to change the world.

We're overhauling the signup flow to make it easier for software mentors, new signups and contributors to get started.

HTML/CSS, JavaScript, Ruby on Rails

https://github.com/operationcode/operationcode

https://github.com/OperationCode/operationcode/blob/master/C....

MIT

Etcher [1][2] is an open-source project by resin.io, the only cross-platform, open-source flash drive writer. Etcher is developed with Electron, node.js, and Angular.js. We're growing Etcher to solve more IoT device problems and looking to bring on board experienced javascript engineers who love to create incredible user experiences and solve hard, cross-platform problems for hundreds of thousands of users, all while working in the open.

[1]: https://etcher.io, [2]: https://github.com/resin-io/etcher

HospitalRun is an offline first, Ember based, Hospital Information System for charitable hospitals in developing countries.

> What do you hope to build this month? We are focused on ongoing work toward reaching the 1.0. For a list of outstanding issues, see this GitHub milestone on the frontend app: https://github.com/hospitalrun/hospitalrun-frontend/mileston...

We're in need of folks with the following skills: Ember JS experience for general app development; internationalization and localization; New Relic instrumentation experience; automating deployments from GitHub; HL7 experience; product and UI design for lots of CSS and UI cleanup (https://github.com/hospitalRun/design); design systems experience for working on a styleguide and pattern library; docs writing for app documentation; web and marketing design for the hospitalrun.io site (http://github.com/hospitalRun/hospitalrun.github.io)

To contribute, check out our CONTRIBUTING.md file on GitHub (https://github.com/hospitalrun/hospitalrun-frontend/blob/mas...) and join our Slack team.

HospitalRun is open source under the GNU general public license.

Open Synthesis is an open platform for CIA-style analysis of current events. Our mission is to help the public synthesize the flood of information from the media into actionable conclusions. Examples from https://www.opensynthesis.org/boards/:

- What is the relationship between WikiLeaks and Russian intelligence?

- What caused the Space X Falcon 9 explosion?

Now that we have a basic MVP, here's what we want to accomplish this month:

- Improve new user onboarding; reduce the learning curve of the main analysis interface

- Design and implement a moderation system; enable public sign-ups on the site

- Engage an initial set of journalists/analysts to get their feedback on requirements

- Surface information about evidence quality

- Create basic branding materials (e.g., logo)

In addition to these immediate goals, we're looking for designers to help with UI/UX design of the site, especially figuring out how to adapt the analysis tool for mobile.

Skills we need: design, UX, UI, internationalization, community design, community development, moderation, test engineering, Django, Python 3

License: GPLv3

Sandbox deployment (with no account/editing restrictions): https://open-synthesis-sandbox.herokuapp.com

Help Wanted issues: https://github.com/twschiller/open-synthesis/labels/help%20w...

HN-selected issues: https://github.com/twschiller/open-synthesis/labels/ask%20hn

Project Chat (Gitter): https://gitter.im/open-synthesis/Lobby

We’re building the first open source, publicly available national voter database in the United States to power grassroots campaigns, monitor voter suppression, and make door-to-door advocacy possible for anyone.

Monthly Goals:

- Create loaders for new states

- Enhance reliability of existing loaders

- Create Python geocoder to tag households with lat/long

- Develop queries to explore data quality

- Begin work on flash API

Skills needed: PostgreSQL, GIS, Python, Pentaho Data Integration (we can help you learn)

Slack Signup: http://goo.gl/forms/8SJRDlo7Lx2rUsan1

GitHub: https://github.com/getmovement/national-voter-file

Dimensional Data Model: https://docs.google.com/document/d/169mIkiIdl4OetbGvnbVCzq9S...

Information on state voter files to load: http://voterlist.electproject.org/home

Pentaho Data Integration: http://community.pentaho.com/projects/data-integration/

License: MIT

Borg is a cross-platform (linux - osx - bsd) backup tool with deduplication, encryption and compression. It's written in Python (>95 %) with some Cython and C for low-level bit bashing.

> What do you hope to build this month?

We're working towards the release of 1.1.0 which may occur at the end of this month or the next. It includes a lot of features and general improvements already, but there's always something to do!

> What kind of skills do you need?

We can always use more testers and people writing better documentation. Code contributions are always welcome as well - test improvements, bug fixes, new features and so on.

There has been initial work on a native Windows version to the point that the basic features work, but it would really benefit from an active Windows developer. Windows issues: https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Ai...

License: 3-clause BSD.

Contribution guidelines: https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/latest/development.html

We also participate in Bountysource.

* Description - Self-hosted application/module distribution and package management for all languages and operating systems

* This month - I would like to reach initial completion status thereby moving from alpha to beta releases

* Skills - JavaScript, Node, Shell Scripting, Windows, nix

* Link - https://github.com/prettydiff/biddle

* License - MIT

Pomodoro technique® time tracker.

We'd like to build a public API, but there's a lot of other tasks that could be done.

Ruby, Ruby on Rails, CSS, JavaScript.

http://github.com/potomak/tomatoes

License: MIT

A popular CalDAV/CardDAV/WebDAV implementation in PHP, integrated into pretty much any PHP-based project that requires these features and sometimes even in non-PHP projects that simply don't have a solid extendable implementation.

sabre/dav is the library, baikal is a management application on top of it.

This months goal:

- Update baikal to use Silex instead of a proprietary framework.

Next months goal:

- A new design for Baikal

Needed skills:

- Intermediate PHP developer.

Links:

* http://github.com/fruux/sabre-dav

* http://github.com/fruux/Baikal

* http://sabre.io

* irc://freenode.net/#sabredav

Licenses:

* BSD 3-Clause (for all the libraries)

* GPLv3 (for the baikal-frontend)

Monthly Goals:

- Robust relationship support (many-to-many, one-to-one, polymorphic, reflexive) - GH project organization. Now that projects have landed, we need to move non-actionable issues into notes on an "Ideas" project, and clean up the issues backlog.

Skills needed: JavaScript, Ember.js

Slack: https://embercommunity.slack.com/ channel #ec-mirage Website: http://www.ember-cli-mirage.com/ Source: https://github.com/samselikoff/ember-cli-mirage

License: MIT

a simple tech blog built by tech enthusiasts

hope to build: a better design + more reader base

we need: writers, web developers

we're looking for people who are interested in writing about tech and designing for the web! :)

if you'd like to contribute shoot an email to: everything@siimplytech.com

This script offers Time Machine-style backup using rsync.

https://github.com/laurent22/rsync-time-backup

> What do you hope to build this month?

There are a few open issues, pull requests and todos. One example is an optimization to delete old backups faster. Another is to detect when a drive is FAT and adjust rsync parameters accordingly.

> What kind of skills do you need?

Good knowledge of Bash and Unix/Linux/Cygwin.

> Your license(s)

MIT

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Sway (https://github.com/SirCmpwn/sway) - An i3-compatible Wayland compositor (MIT license)

This month: we're shipping Sway 0.10, but still accepting bug fixes and new features from our roadmap or your imagination: http://swaywm.org/roadmap

Roles for: C programming, docs writing, testing, user support

Visit us on IRC: #sway on irc.freenode.net (webchat: https://goo.gl/nOg1X4) Feel free to stop by and get some direction for how you can help out!

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aerc (https://github.com/SirCmpwn/aerc) - An async command line email client (MIT license)

This month: someone's working on key bindings

Roles for: C programming

Ping me on the IRC network of your choice (SirCmpwn) and I'll help you get started, there's no IRC channel yet

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KnightOS (http://knightos.org) - An operating system for calculators (MIT license, mostly)

TODO: Too much for a HN comment, tell me what you're interested in and I'll hook you up with the right project

Roles for: Programming in C, assembly, JavaScript, Python, docs writing, marketing

Chat: #knightos on irc.freenode.net http://www.knightos.org/irc/

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TrueCraft (https://truecraft.io) - An open source implementation of Minecraft beta 1.7.3 (MIT license)

This month: things are quiet, ping me and I'll set you up to contribute

Roles for: Programming in C#, Python, JavaScript, docs writing, marketing

Chat: #truecraft on irc.esper.net (webchat: https://goo.gl/G8evBV)

Project description: rsync for cloud storage

rclone aims to be an easy to use command line tool for transferring files to and from cloud storage systems. It currently support S3, Google Drive, Amazon Drive, Backblaze B2, Dropbox, Swift amongst others!

What do you hope to build this month?

Another month - another release - see the v1.34 milestone! I'd really like some help fixing some of the small bugs and features. The project is popular enough that it is using up all my hacking time and I'm not quite keeping up!

What kind of skills do you need?

  * Go (golang) is useful since rclone is written in it, though if you know C/C++ you'll pick up Go in no time at all.

  * An interest in cloud storage systems in general (or one in the list of supported systems) would be good.

rclone is MIT licensed.

Any help most appreciated no matter how small!

Thanks

Nick

Learn how you can grow anything, anywhere!

We're hoping to squash some more bugs and issues this month - making our user experience even better.

Additionally, we'd love to hear how you grow some of your crops.

Angular, Ruby on Rails, Design

https://github.com/openfarmcc/OpenFarm/issues?q=is%3Aissue+i...

OpenPicker is an open source and self hosted file picker for websites.

I would like to ship Facebook image upload integration to OpenPicker this month.

To hack on this, basic experience with NodeJs/Express, CoffeeScript and Angular1.0 should be enough.

Github link: https://github.com/gauravtiwari5050/OpenPicker

MIT License

We work on developer tools and apis for drone development.

Currently looking for contributors on all fields, Documentation, Python, Android, Swift, C++, Rust, and Community Management.

We are looking for iOS devs to help us create an ios-dronekit library.

You can find us on some of Gitter channels from our most notable projects. (gitter links on readme)

https://github.com/dronekit/dronekit-python https://github.com/dronekit/dronekit-android

License: mostly Apache, we <3 open source, have an opinion on license, let us know!

Thanks - mrpollo

This is a simple, example based introductory book for teaching newbies how to write webapps in Go. I have added the tags to the issue.

http://github.com/thewhitetulip/Tasks/

This is a simplistic todo list manager written in Go. Tags have been added to the issues.

Tasks is MIT licensed and the book is CC licensed

Any and all help is appreciated, feel free to reach me via email any time, I would respond as soon as possible. Email is in my github page.

pdfparanoia - remove watermarks from papers (PDFs) - https://github.com/kanzure/pdfparanoia

Project description - Radare is a portable reversing framework that can:

  -  Disassemble (and assemble for) many different architectures
  -  Debug with local native and remote debuggers (gdb, rap, webui, r2pipe, winedbg, windbg)
  -  Run on Linux, *BSD, Windows, OSX, Android, iOS, Solaris and Haiku
  -  Perform forensics on filesystems and data carving
  -  Be scripted in Python, Javascript, Go and more

   - https://github.com/radare/radare2/milestone/4 (for main project) 

   - https://github.com/radare/radare2-webui/issues (for WebUI)

   - C and basic understanding of reverse engineering (for main project)

   - HTML/CSS/JS (for WebUI project)

We have IRC channel #radare on Freenode and #radare Telegram channel ( https://telegram.me/joinchat/ACR-FgWyg1bbu9YUzT_5pg ). Both are connected with each other via the bridge.

Everyone can start from the issues marked as 'easy': https://github.com/radare/radare2/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Ao...

See also our CONTRIBUTING page https://github.com/radare/radare2/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.m...

Building Instant Answers for programming languages to make DuckDuckGo the best search engine for developers.

We're just kicking off some new target languages (C, C++, HTML, Java, PHP, R, Ruby) so we hope to make new Instant Answers that can show documentation snippets, lookup libraries and packages, display cheat sheets or interactive tools.

The actual languages we use for programming are primarily Perl and JavaScript. There are many existing Instant Answers to copy/learn from.

Starting point: https://forum.duckduckhack.com/t/duckduckhack-programming-mi...

Apache License v2.0

A small project that provides function level caching in Python with Redis (currently only Redis but looking to add more backends).

Work has stagnated in the past few months, but there a few issues and ideas that need to be hashed out (cache invalidation, multiple backends, Django built in support, etc). Basically the project is at POC level and can be taken in many directions.

It's written in Python, and interfaces directly with Redis.

https://github.com/alexk307/redis_cache. I will tag issues.

License: MIT