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Looks like they peppered in some weird projects in there as well. I'd have expected some "hard software engineering" projects as well, but I guess not everyone
by precompute 4y ago
Looks like they peppered in some weird projects in there as well. I'd have expected some "hard software engineering" projects as well, but I guess not everyone is ready to be a spokesman for github's view of the world.
https://github.com/EddieHubCommunity/LinkFree https://github.com/EddieHubCommunity/LinkFree : "Your profile will have links to your social media and content. You can also add your timeline, testimonials, and upcoming events that you are participating in."
Sounds lame. Is this really worth including in this list?
https://github.com/JessicaTegner/pypandoc https://github.com/JessicaTegner/pypandoc: "Pypandoc provides a thin wrapper for pandoc, a universal document converter."
So random. Why not support pandoc instead?
It seems like a political statement by Microsoft. The list only has "trendy" stuff, carefully moves around any and all "AI" stuff, and none of it seems experimental at all. If I didn't know this was "Github Accelerator" and was shown the list, I'd have assumed this was some VC's list of prospective Open Source programs that could turn a penny or two down the road.
It seems pretty obvious to me that now that Github has cornered the "open source" market, it's on the "Extend" phase, looking to change how Open Source is approached.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...
- ignoramous 4y agoThe messaging was that an independent panel would select, and not Microsoft per se.
- precompute 4y agoIt says "Github accelerator" not "Github community accelerator" or something. Pretty sure micro$oft had a big hand in it, they wouldn't allow the pilot for their program to be so "unsupervised".