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Ask HN: Who needs contributors? (November 2016)

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Looking for contributors to your project? Feel free to post any project that may interest HN readers, with a strong preference towards open source. Please follow this general format: Project name

Project description

What do you hope to build this month?

What kind of skills do you need?

Link to your GitHub or somewhere else you'd like to onboard new contributors, like your project management software or chat room.

Your license(s)

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Code Corps (https://www.codecorps.org)

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

Monthly Goals:

- Finish 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

This looks interesting. Are you a non-profit?

We're a public benefit corporation!

> Benefit Corporations: 1) have an expanded purpose beyond maximizing share value to explicitly include general and specific public benefit; 2) are required to consider/balance the impact of their decisions not only on shareholders but also on their stakeholders; and 3) are required to make available to the public, except in Delaware, an annual benefit report that assesses their overall social and environmental performance against a third party standard. Such report does not need to certified or audited by a third party, but use the standard as an assessment tool.

We opted against a non-profit because it's vastly easier to distribute funds quickly to projects under this structure (think Kickstarter – also a benefit corp) and because the IRS seems to deny charitable status for organizations that build open source software.

CMS Airship (https://github.com/paragonie/airship) is a PHP CMS that aims to be secure-by-default. To this end, we pinned our minimum version to PHP 7 (for type safety and ease of static analysis) and built our cryptographic security features on top of libsodium. What cryptographic security features? In addition to the standard fare (e.g. password hashing), we offer secure automatic security updates. We'd like to set the new gold standard for website security.

To see how Airship differs from other CMS platforms, consult this comparison chart of out-of-the-box security features: https://paragonie.com/project/airship

We'll be releasing version 1.4.0 soon, then shifting gears towards a version 2 (with a minimum PHP version of 7.1) later this month. This means backwards incompatible changes are on the table for discussion.

Although our team has a lot of great security talent, we're not UI/UX experts. We're doing the best we can, but we almost certainly need help in this area first and foremost.

https://github.com/paragonie/airship/blob/master/.github/CON...

CMS Airship is GPL3 licensed, although we offer commercial licenses (under terms equivalent to the MIT license).

Any revenue we receive from commercial license agreements will inevitably be funneled into hiring talented developers to improve the areas we're weak in and make Airship better.

JSData (http://js-data.io)

JSData is an open-source JavaScript ORM for Node.js and the browser. It's adapter-based, with adapters currently available for HTTP, Firebase, localStorage, MySql/Postgres/SQLite, RethinkDB, MongoDB, Google Cloud DataStore, Microsoft Azure DocumentDB, and more.

Currently working on finishing up a 3.0.0 release (currently at 3.0.0-rc.6). With so many adapters and integrations that need to be written (and current ones that need maintenance), there are lots of contributing opportunities.

We need help with everything from documentation, tests, and benchmarking, to taking ownership of a current adapter and building new adapters/integrations.

MIT license

Get started contributing at: http://www.js-data.io/v3.0/docs/contributing

We're also on Slack: http://slack.js-data.io

Thanks!

Project Name: HRCloud2

Project Description: A home-hosted personal Cloud that also converts files, OCR's images and documents, archives, de-archives, creates playlists, and more. Also includes a plugin-capable personal assistant named HRAI. Supports multiple users and includes 4 user-selectable color schemes.

This month: I'd like to wrap up the Javascript for auto-playing and auto-iterating songs within playlists. Also I would like to implement a Copy/Paste clipboard (in-process) and a "User Contacts" and "User Notes" sections. Once all the production features are set with the desktop GUI I'll work on the mobile GUI.

I Need: Javascript and PHP developers! Passionate ones.

URL: https://github.com/zelon88/HRCloud2

License: GPLv3

appleseed is a modern, open source, physically-based rendering engine designed to produce photorealistic images, animations and visual effects. It's been used on TV documentaries and commercials, and it's been integrated in various packages, among them Autodesk 3ds Max [1] and Image Engine's Gaffer [2]. We've also made a short film with it, "Fetch": https://vimeo.com/92172277

This month we're planning on starting the volume rendering subsystem (https://github.com/appleseedhq/appleseed/projects/1) and, if time allows, investigate switching to Intel's Embree ray tracing kernels [3].

The code is written in C++ and we have a Python 2/3 API. There is work for everyone: pure rendering (a good understanding of rendering concepts and related maths will help), user interface (Qt), samples (Python), system programming, hardcore optimization...

It all seems rather technical, but don't be afraid, we're a small but welcoming community and everyone's happy to help!

appleseed is MIT-licensed.

Home: http://appleseedhq.net/

GitHub: https://github.com/appleseedhq/appleseed

Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/appleseedhq

[1] https://github.com/appleseedhq/appleseed-max

[2] http://www.gafferhq.org/

[3] https://embree.github.io/

Hi there. Our organisation, Security First (https://www.secfirst.org) has just launched Umbrella - a free, open source, Android app to help activists, journalists and travellers manage their digital and physical security in high risk countries.

Built by media, NGO, human rights and technology security professionals. The lessons give you simple, practical advice on what to do and what tools to do it with – covering everything from sending a secure email to conducting physical counter-surveillance. You can choose your level of ability or type of protection needed and get answers that reflect your needs. Users can mark, customise and share simple checklists for quick reminders. It also has a series of security information feeds from places like the UN and Centers for Disease Control to keep you updated on the move.

It’s free, open source and available to download on Android from Google Play:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.secfirst.u...

Amazon App Store: https://www.amazon.com/Security-First-Umbrella-made-easy/dp/...

F-Droid Repo: https://secfirst.org/fdroid/repo

Github Code and Content Repo: https://github.com/securityfirst

-Code audit: https://secfirst.org/blog.html

Skills needed:

-Android Development

-Copywriting - app content is a bit dense could do we editing down, updating and more graphics etc, but website, documentation etc could be a lot better!

-Translation (80% of Spanish Done, 88% of Mandarin, see https://www.transifex.com/otf/umbrella-app/dashboard/)

-UI/UX improvements and suggestions

-Q&A

I do copywriting and I have been a military wife and had annual training in information security when I worked for a major insurance company for over five years. That company also talked a lot about its ground-breaking marketing that made its name a household word and I learned a lot from exposure to their marketing.

I have gone through some of your links and cannot readily see where or how to contribute copywriting. So I am leaving a comment here.

I went to your website. I will suggest that instead of saying Umbrella: Security made easy that you change that to Umbrella: Security at your fingertips. Security is never easy and anyone who has dealt with real risk will likely have trouble taking you seriously if you position yourself as making security easy. Plus, the phrasing evokes those push-button little umbrellas that rapidly pop open while also more literally referring to having your tablet in your hands.

Edit: I will further add that you should change Digital and physical security for people at risk in some way. "People at risk" evokes poor people and abused wives and children born in the wrong country. It implies that this app is not of potential benefit to anyone and everyone, just certain people that you would likely think of as losers. You need to update that, to something more along the lines of "Digital and physical security information for an insecure world."

Awesome! This is the interesting type of insight we are looking for. Going to drop you a mail directly to follow up :)

Tomatoes (http://tomato.es)

Description: Pomodoro technique® time tracker.

Last month we built the public API. This month we want mainly to rebuild leaderboards using async tasks.

Skills needed: Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

http://github.com/potomak/tomatoes

License: MIT

Borg is a terminal gister/snippet searcher - for now only shell snippets but in the future we plan to move towards way bigger goals. The thing can be self hosted to be a knowledge base for your company, something like a cross between a stacko/wiki etc. We have slack integration, and a bunch others are coming.

We plan to implement private entries and searches this month and also team/organisation management on the frontend (done on the backend).

Right now the front end is lagging behind in terms of features - we are migrating from Angular 1 to React. (https://github.com/ok-borg/web)

https://github.com/ok-borg/borg

License is apache 2.

So you're aware, your name clashes: https://github.com/borgbackup/borg

Yes.

HaxePunk (http://www.haxepunk.com, https://github.com/haxepunk/haxepunk) is an open source 2D game engine written in the Haxe programming language. HaxePunk games can be deployed on a number of platforms from one code base: Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, Flash, and (experimental) HTML5, with potential console support in the future. If you're interested in or have experience with game development (and Haxe) I'm working on an aggressive set of new features for the next version and would love some help.

Lagom (https://github.com/reimertz/lagom) is a presentation generator. It comes with a handy CLI that you use to create, serve and deploy your presentations.

My aim is to create a tool that is well known, easy to use and comes with minimalistic themes. I should have more but comes with features with tech-talkers in mind, like:

  - presentation mode
  - synced aspect-ratio
  - synced mouse pointer
  - synced highlighting

I need help on all fronts, iteration on the css, implementing more themes, more features, writing tests.

MIT licensed.

StreamX is a kafka-connect based connector to copy data from Kafka to Object Stores like Amazon s3, Google Cloud Storage and Azure Blob Store

Skills : Java, Understanding Kafka, Cloud Object Stores (s3/GCS/Azure blob store)

https://github.com/qubole/streamx

License : Apache V2

Currently, this has support only for s3. We want to add support for other cloud object stores. Also, we would like to support different output formats(ORC to start with). Feel free to create issues and we can discuss there.

For any more details, mail praveen.seluka@gmail.com

WP Content Calendar

A simple drag and drop editorial calendar for WordPress

I'd like to add new features.

https://github.com/Tapha/WP-Content-Calendar

Licence: https://github.com/Tapha/WP-Content-Calendar/blob/master/LIC...

Tablesaw (https://github.com/lwhite1/tablesaw) Tablesaw is a high-performance dataframe in Java, with hooks into plotting and machine-learning routines. Open-sourced under Apache2. Would be happy to have help with:

- Integrating more machine-learning algorithms (preferably using SMILE or SparkML)

- Integrating more plot types

- improved support for table joins

- misc. improvements.

Sotoki (by kiwix) [https://github.com/kiwix/sotoki/tree/wiredtiger]

The project aims at making stackexchange website available offline.

Fix the memory leak that was found in wiredtiger branch.

Python

GPL3+

And if you're looking for new maintainers, post your project on https://github.com/pickhardt/maintainers-wanted

fpvracing.tv is an online community for the rapidly growing sport of drone racing. I'm looking for somebody to help maintain the site, which is a rails app hosted on Heroku. Email address is admin at the domain.

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