Ask HN: Looking for contributors?

18 pointsantonius12y ago10 comments

Although a similar post was made a month ago (see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7360491), I thought I'd post this again in case people may have missed it and are looking for contributors.

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phantom_oracle12y ago· 4 in thread

Noobs(and mentors) wanted!

I'm looking for people who have been through Codecademy, Codeschool or any other "teach yourself to code" platform and have learnt at least some frontend and some backend technologies.

I want to help you guys build real projects that you can show off on your resumes, etc.

If anyone is interested, just reply here and I will create some type of form to capture info.

Mentors welcome too!!!

boca12y ago

I am very much interested and looking for a mentor. I have gone through a few online courses on Udacity, Codeacademy and Coursera and can work at an amateur level with the following:

- Python

- HTML5 and some javascript

- Google App Engine

- Git

- Heroku

- Some AWS

Here are a few things that I was able to ship :)

- ishareflix.appspot.com

- www.punjabirangmanch.com

- gyaansharing.appspot.com

samelawrence12y ago

I'll bite. I've been studying a lot through tutorials and have built some small side projects, but nothing that I feel really proud of. Am definitely seeking some mentorship as I start to tackle something more important.

publicprivacy12y ago

Hello, I have been through a lot of those and feel very comfortable coding. However I don't think I can fully manage resume worthy projects yet. How can we get in touch?

phantom_oracle12y ago

Let me create a form. I don't think I'll get much of an audience here, so I'll try in other noob areas.

I will link back here though.

JamieLewis12y ago

I posted this on the last thread, but I am definitely still looking for volunteers.

I'm actually currently starting to look for a co-contributor or two, there is so much that I want to get done, and having an extra set of eyes and hands would be great.

I am working on a framework/concept called ghostream (https://ghostream.com / https://github.com/ghostream/ghostream)

ghostream is a stream processing framework, built in C++ - it is a data stream processing framework. Having used numerous commercial ones (most notably IBM's Streams), and building various other part-frameworks (i.e. for time and budget reasons focussed on one particular thing) I has an itch to build an open source one (while storm and samza are definitely related, I feel they fall into a slightly different category - I'm all about the streams :) )

It is still in very active development - but the base is solidified now and the new test framework is starting to shape up nicely. There are a whole list of issues on github + a roadmap waiting to be exploited.

I have already started dog-fooding it in my other personal projects - the most visual of which can be seen here: http://jamielewis.me.uk/posts/2013-11-03-Mapping-Earthquakes....

If this strikes your interest give me a shout: jamie@ghostream.com.

frewsxcv12y ago

I'm working a JS 3D graph visualization library. Think Sigma.js, but 3D. You can see a fairly lame demo here:

http://froosky.rwell.org/graphosaurus/examples/eve/

and the source:

https://github.com/frewsxcv/graphosaurus/

Check the source on the examples page if you want to see the API thus far. While progress is being made, having other contributors (especially ones with WebGL, Three.js, or graphics backgrounds) definitely helps. Please please please let me know if you have any comments about anything related to the project. If you have any ideas for demo/example graphs, please share them! I'm getting tired of staring at the EVE Online universe :P

WoodenChair12y ago

I'm always looking for Dart programmers to contribute to the Dart port of chess.js, chess.dart. https://github.com/davecom/chess.dart

japhyr12y ago

I have been working on http://educatornews.net. It's just getting off the ground, so if you like what HN offers and would like to see something similar for the education profession, feel free to get in touch.

EN is written in django, and the project is on github: https://github.com/ehmatthes/educator_news

hhaidar12y ago

I'm writing a chat app in nodejs: https://github.com/sdelements/lets-chat

It's coming along, but I'd love to have some ideas and code thrown at me.

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