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Ask HN: Quit my job for a year to write open source code, what should I work on?
I've saved up some money and am interested in doing something different for a bit. If I quit my job to work on some open source projects (probably mostly existing, but open to new projects too) what should they be?
- opendomain 13y agoWould you like to work on The Web Platform?
- melling 13y agoBlender: http://www.blender.org/ http://www.blender.org/ Just because it seems like a cool project in need of more help. It really does depend on your interests, of course.
- thenomad 13y agoIf you're going to do Blender stuff, my vote would be to focus on interoperability with other applications. In particular, Blender needs a working Alembic import/export function, IMO.
- senthadev 13y agoSelf hosting real time "Commenting" web application with text mining/taming functionality. (A replacement for Disque)
- psykovsky 13y agoBitcoin. That is all.
- cosmicvibes 13y agoI just saw a post on here about TextBlob - a python natural language processing library. It occurs to me that we need an open source alternative to Google's language processing (as seen on Android and in Google Now). We already have good speech recognition... If I had the chance I'd do that, maybe it'd interest you.
- cowpig 13y agoWhat are you good at?
- ilaksh 13y agoI would like to sort of copy Weebly but make the core and all or most of the components totally open source and have a strong index/rating system for sharing and loading components etc. I would write it in ToffeeScript(https://github.com/jiangmiao/toffee-script https://github.com/jiangmiao/toffee-script) using Node.js. I would also like to make something sort of like a web browser, except its based on a distributed hash table or something so that it is totally data-oriented rather than server-oriented, and instead of HTML and CSS its markdown (with embedded SVG) and optionally RDF (using N3) and optionally a sandboxed Go application that is compiled on the fly. Also the applications aren't restricted to a browser window but have a security system and access similar to that available on mobile. Or a mesh of user-defined 3d worlds built on WebRTC and WebGL with portals and multidimensional overlays.
- bnb 13y agoOpen-source social networking/personal data storage with Tent: https://tent.io/ https://tent.io/ You can build any type of app you want on top of Tent. See the hosting provider Cupcake.io to get a working Tent account: https://cupcake.io https://cupcake.io (say ^bnb.cupcake.is sent you!)
- senthadev 13y agoThis is what I was looking for, data producers control their own data and manage the app providers to use the data..
- jdorfman 13y agoOl' Dirty Bashnerds are looking for some help: https://github.com/odb https://github.com/odb
- rhc2104 13y agoWould you be interested in making more people contribute to open source code? Gittip lets people give money to their favorite open source contributors. https://github.com/gittip/www.gittip.com https://github.com/gittip/www.gittip.com CodeDoor is a way for programmers to leverage their open source contributions to freelance work. (Note: I'm the founder of CodeDoor) https://github.com/CodeDoor/codedoor https://github.com/CodeDoor/codedoor
- utnick 13y agoOpenWhisperSystems is pretty topical with all the NSA stuff going around
- USNetizen 13y agoPlay Framework. A very promising framework on the JVM which could supplant Rails/Django at some point with far better performance and robust enterprise features.
- samspenc 13y agoI would recommend Linux / Ubuntu / OpenOffice / LibreOffice. :)
- mikeburrelljr 13y agoWhatever you want! :)
- bjourne 13y agoI think you should work on Factor: http://factorcode.org/ http://factorcode.org/ It's a new and very different programming language that takes about a month of study to learn. After that it will totally blow your mind showing you new and better ways to write software. So embrace Factor and spread the message! :)
- chris_va 13y agoDoes anyone actually like postfix notation?
- fakenam 13y agoThat depends. Why are you going to work on open-source code. Do you have a way of getting paid to do this?
- aba_sababa 13y agoYou should help out on Skyline! github.com/etsy/skyline It's a real time anomaly detection system.