Ask HN: Is there any site to find open source projects needing developers?

8 points·anujkk··7 comments

Is there any website that connects open source projects with developers - a place where open source projects can post jobs(task)they need to get done and interested programmers can search and browse it?

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If you like open source web projects, there are great ones listed at http://libreprojects.net

Most of them also need developers, and some have specific jobs. ownCloud for instance has some starters: http://owncloud.org/dev/junior-jobs/ and so has Unhosted: https://github.com/unhosted/website/wiki/State-of-the-moveme...

OpenHatch lists tasks from various open-source projects, usually aimed at new contributors - http://openhatch.org/search/ - any project listed there would be actively looking for help and welcoming to new people.

From my experience though, just about every open-source project out there would love to have more people helping out. Have a look at the project's bug tracker.

Weekend Hacker connects developers with projects. I don't think all the projects are open source but it might be worth having a look.

http://www.weekendhacker.net/

For any of my projects, go to the issues page on github and there's the list of things I need done. You can then message me through github or comment on the issues as well. This is true for a lot of projects.

I have an idea for a open source bounty board. You can post a job that you would like the open source project X to implement feature Y and you are willing to pay Z to whoever does it. What do you think?

Gun.io already has that covered, at least in the States (for now).

Try http://gun.io/open/

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