Ask HN: Who needs contributors? (December 2016)

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

Monthly Goals:

- Polish edge cases in Stripe integration for monthly donations

- Redesign task UI

- CSS work to move towards BEM, flex box, greater responsiveness

- Minor features in blog

Skills needed: Elixir, Phoenix, PostgreSQL, JavaScript, Ember.js, HTML, CSS, Sass, WordPress, 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

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

TL;DW chrome extension for YouTube. Any video on youtube can be TL;DW'd and anyone who opens it and has the extension installed can run the TL;DW'd version. The extension allows users to remain on YouTube (i.e. not 'stealing' traffic). The website allows to create TL;DW's (not editing the actual video). Requires Google credentials. Side project, just one guy (me).

This month I'm going to add a bit of social discovery (i.e. share buttons, etc) and then finally refactor, restructure and take it seriously, because it's just an idea I had a month ago but now I really want it to become something.

I need content. Please create TL;DW's for lectures, tutorials, etc, and skip the smalltalk, boring parts, bad jokes and off-topic. And then share (manually, until I add the social stuff). Thanks!

Extension: http://goo.gl/rhwid5

Website (create, discover TL;DW's): https://youtulong.com/

Want to build software that connects people? Flexport is a platform for global trade in an industry that comprises 12% of the global GDP. We are building products that are enabling anyone to participate in trade regardless of geographic, regulatory or logistical boundaries. By dramatically simplifying the process of importing goods from overseas, we aim to empower a new generation of entrepreneurs benefitting from the wonders of international trade.

With revenue growing at 25% MoM, we are looking to bring on brilliant technologists interested in solving complex challenges & building a platform for global trade.

Started in 2013, we've raised $94M from investors that include Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, Google Ventures, First Round Capital, Bloomberg Beta, Y Combinator, & more.

Check us out if you:

-Want to be part of a close-knit engineering team that releases new code every day -Take a product-first approach to building software -Care about the real world functionality of your programming -Desire to build scalable programs that standardize information flow and increase operational capacity -Have amazing coding skills and CS fundamentals; and -Know modern javascript frameworks.

Our stack:

Our continuous releases are integrated with Travis and Github. On the frontend, we use React for the views, organize the data flow with Flux architecture, and test our application with Jest. On the backend, we're a Rails shop riding on AWS and Postgres RDS.

Want to learn more? Email kerianne@flexport.com or check us out at flexport.com

Ensembles of decision trees (boosted, bagged) in golang. It's a project I started as a research platform and it has some great features not found elsewhere and good computational performance. There are also a couple of companies using it in production and some researchers using it in computational genetics.

https://github.com/ryanbressler/CloudForest

BSD-3-clause

This month:

I'm just starting development again after a bit of a hyatus. This month my main goal is to do some basic maintenance and work with some people who've forked it to bring features and bug fixes back into main.

Then I want to duplicate some xgboost like features including parallelism that will work with boosting and 2nd order gradient boosting (using the hessian instead of just the gradient).

And i'd like to to utilize go's newish shared object support to make it callable from python and R.

Skills Needed: go programmers confident in writing low level machine learning style code or python/R/etc programmers interested in maintaining a wrapper. Data scientists interested in using it and providing feedback on performance.

Onboarding: I just set up a google group where people can introduce themselves: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/cloudforest-dev

I'll work on cleaning out the issue tracker and prioritizing things so people can pick them up if they want.

https://github.com/freeciv/freeciv-web/

License: AGPL.