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Ask HN: What are some good “starter” GitHub foss projects to contribute to

1 points by dvdcxn 11y ago

Personally, although I have decent development capabilities in a fair amount of languages, despite wanting to, I've never contributed to an open source project. The task of finding one suitable is somewhat daunting. I imagine it's like going to the gym for the first time, daunting for the first week or so before you get into the swing of things and realise everybody wants you to succeed. So, what are some good projects for diving into?

cdvonstinkpot 11y ago
I use this one, which appears to have potential for further development & could probably use someone working on improving it. For example while it works well at the command line, it could use a GUI, and some functional additions that would be helpful to use it. It's basically a bulk-namecoin domain processor using the RPC interface. The dev is friendly enough, maybe strike up a conversation if you find it interesting. https://gitorious.org/libnmcrpc/libnmcrpc/source/8f4e83de7f1afcabfcc9c8a05b2f4aba8bdf1d44:README https://gitorious.org/libnmcrpc/libnmcrpc/source/8f4e83de7f1...
vmorgulis 11y ago
Right now my favorites are Emscripten and Firefox.
kjksf 11y ago
Browse the list of Google's Summer Of Code projects (e.g. 2014 list: https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/projects/list/google/gsoc2014 https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/projects/list/google/gso...), pick the one that interest you the most and contribute to that. Those are all projects that explicitly want someone to help them with something. There's also http://sourceforge.net/p/forge/helpwanted/ http://sourceforge.net/p/forge/helpwanted/ and https://help.github.com/articles/where-can-i-find-open-source-projects-to-work-on https://help.github.com/articles/where-can-i-find-open-sourc... and I'm sure if you Google around, you'll find more lists like that.
- vmorgulis 11y ago
  In this category, there is also BountySource. It's informative to see the "stream" of the bounties given a project (amounts, paid or not, since when...).
sumodirjo 11y ago
Not an application project but I list engineering blog of startup companies. You can add blog(s) that is not already listed there http://github.com/sumodirjo/engineering-blogs http://github.com/sumodirjo/engineering-blogs

1 points by dvdcxn 11y ago

cdvonstinkpot 11y ago

I use this one, which appears to have potential for further development & could probably use someone working on improving it. For example while it works well at the command line, it could use a GUI, and some functional additions that would be helpful to use it. It's basically a bulk-namecoin domain processor using the RPC interface. The dev is friendly enough, maybe strike up a conversation if you find it interesting. https://gitorious.org/libnmcrpc/libnmcrpc/source/8f4e83de7f1afcabfcc9c8a05b2f4aba8bdf1d44:README https://gitorious.org/libnmcrpc/libnmcrpc/source/8f4e83de7f1...

vmorgulis 11y ago

Right now my favorites are Emscripten and Firefox.

kjksf 11y ago

Browse the list of Google's Summer Of Code projects (e.g. 2014 list: https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/projects/list/google/gsoc2014 https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/projects/list/google/gso...), pick the one that interest you the most and contribute to that. Those are all projects that explicitly want someone to help them with something. There's also http://sourceforge.net/p/forge/helpwanted/ http://sourceforge.net/p/forge/helpwanted/ and https://help.github.com/articles/where-can-i-find-open-source-projects-to-work-on https://help.github.com/articles/where-can-i-find-open-sourc... and I'm sure if you Google around, you'll find more lists like that.

vmorgulis 11y ago
In this category, there is also BountySource. It's informative to see the "stream" of the bounties given a project (amounts, paid or not, since when...).

sumodirjo 11y ago

Not an application project but I list engineering blog of startup companies. You can add blog(s) that is not already listed there http://github.com/sumodirjo/engineering-blogs http://github.com/sumodirjo/engineering-blogs