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Who's looking for open source contributors? (May 7 edition)

Please shamelessly promote your project. Everyone who posted in previous weeks is welcome back this week, as always. 😄

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Nilan Marktanner

Great discussion, thanks for opening that up!

Prisma (>7k stars) turns your database into a GraphQL API and we are looking for first time contributors and experienced contributors alike.

We welcome new features, bug fixes and documentation improvements to the core library (Scala) as well as our tooling suite around it (JavaScript/TypeScript).

We have many other open source projects beyond Prisma that are widely used in the GraphQL space - check them out on our open source page.

You can engage with us on Github or in Slack so we can help you getting started!

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Jeremy Grifski

I guess I'll shamelessly post again this week because this was pretty successful last week.

I'm growing a collection of sample programs in as many programming languages as possible. If that sounds interesting, give the repo a star to help it grow.

When I shared this last week, I got my first two contributors, so thanks!

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Abdus Azad

Hi Jeremy. I like your idea. Because I'm a first-time contributor, I need some guidance to start contributing. Would you mind dropping me an email at dev.abdus@gmail.com? So, that I can discuss about it with you. Please.

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Jeremy Grifski

Definitely! I'm reaching out now.

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Jeremy Grifski • Edited

I really have to thank everyone who has already started helping out. Last week, I was the only one working on the project. Now, I have 12 stars and 8 forks--incredible.

Thanks, Ben! This is really an awesome resource.

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Ephraim

Habari _Swahili for hello! ;-) _
Brilliant idea. I have a couple of code snippets I would love to add to the growing collection. I'm a first-time contributor and would really appreciate some guidance as well if it's not too much to ask for. `ephygtz@gmail.com`

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Jeremy Grifski

Sounds great! I'll reach out now :)

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Bassem

Hey Jeremy, love ur repo, will definitely contribute, i have been looking for a repo to be my first contribution, i think urs is perfect for this, reach out to me @ bassemmohamed1994@gmail.com

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Jeremy Grifski

I agree! This is a great repo for people looking to get involved in open source. Let me know what you have in mind.

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Linda • Edited

CodeBuddies (295 stars) is a platform that lets anyone start a study group or schedule a virtual hangout to screenshare and learn together, with the premise that learning with other people makes getting through MOOCs and tutorials more fun. :)

Our learning hangouts are community-organized and fully remote because we believe that getting coding help and finding peer study partners shouldn't be limited by where one lives or by one's ability to commute to a local tech meetup after work.

The app is built using Meteor/Blaze (all CSS/Javascript on the frontend) and runs on MongoDB. We welcome new bug reports, documentation improvements to our docs.codebuddies.org (Github repo: github.com/codebuddies/documentation), and first-time contributors on good-for-beginner issues. Coding help is available in the #codebuddies-meta or #cb-code channels on our Slack, as well as on the Github issue itself. If you're interested in working on an open issue, please leave a comment to indicate your interest in claiming it.

The community is super friendly on Slack (we have a pay-it-forward mentality) and we come from all around the world, spanning different ages and different professions. CodeBuddies lives thanks to the generosity of its members, Slack admin moderators, GitHub code contributors, website community mentors, & 501c3 monetary donations on our Open Collective.

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Jason C. McDonald

Qub³d Engine Group is a brand new voxel-based engine and game project, aiming to make a mature and extensible Minecraft-like game, backed by a vibrant and friendly community.

Anyone with interest in or experience with the following technologies are encouraged to join the project. They're just starting up, so there's plenty of room to find your niche:

  • C++ (especially C++17)
  • Clang compiler (GCC secondary)
  • OpenGL
  • SDL2
  • Lua
  • Sphinx (documentation)
  • CMake

The easiest way to get started is to join the Discord room. Link is on the website: qub3d.org

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Maharshi Choudhury

Want to sharpen my c++ skills. Can I help?

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Jason C. McDonald

Sorry, after my original reply, I realized you were referring to Qub³d, which actually broke up last year. :(

If you want to sharpen your C++ skills, however, you're welcome to check out the open source development work at MousePaw Media. If you have questions before getting started, reach out to me on our Phabricator Lobby chatroom (sign in with GitHub).

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Alexandre Plt

Hi everyone !

I am currently working on a programming language project : Kafe created in C++17, using ANTLR4 to create the parser.

This language runs on a virtual machine, as Java does, and aims the field of scripting in video games, so I am giving a lot of importance to optimizations.

What I am basically trying to do is to create a language which can be read by anyone (simplicity is the keyword regarding the grammar), and can be used easily as a scripting language in video games, something easier than embedding Python without an external library for example.

The project works well on both Linux and Windows, and only needs those dependencies to be built :

  • CMake
  • C++17
  • Java (only if you want to tweak the grammar and need to rebuild the parser)
  • Java, Python 3.x, Ruby 2, GoLang (only if you want to run the benchmarks)

If some people are interested, I can create a Discord room to talk about the language and its features ! c:

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SoteroX

Interested in contributing to a project but when looking at the issues im like damn how do you do that

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Alvaro Cavalcanti

I know it can be hard. But you can try analyzing the code, looking for something you can improve. Be it a small refactor, improving its documentation, etc.

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Eduard Pochtar 👨‍💻 • Edited

Pocok.io

It's a Docker tool that helps to initialise and run project of any complexity with a simple command line interface.

To start any existing project (local, remote) all you have to do is just to run simple command:

$:~ pocok run my-project

it will clone your project, pull all required images and run you project.
You can create multiple environments/plans for development, production, demo etc.
You can also create your own catalog/registry or use GitHub or Gitlab integration.

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Nikita Sobolev

I have lots of tasks!

javascript

Fixing now.sh deploy inside travis (>100 stars): github.com/wemake-services/wemake-...
Writing tests for eslint configuration (new project): github.com/wemake-services/eslint-...
Writing flow type declrations (new project): github.com/sobolevn/vue-flow-typed...

python

Writing docs (> 100 stars): github.com/wemake-services/wemake-...

bash

Fixing different issues (>850 stars): github.com/sobolevn/git-secret/issues

common

Adding awesome cryptography links (> 1100 stars): github.com/sobolevn/awesome-crypto...

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Brujo Benavides • Edited

Great topic!

I'm looking for Erlang devs to help me and my friends at Inaka with the lot of issues we have in our queue for Elvis and related repos :)

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tbodt

I made a JavaScript language server using ESLint and Tern. I use it in Vim, but it should work in any editor. github.com/tbodt/js-langserver

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Yoandy Rodriguez Martinez

Care if I make an Emacs mode out of it? :D

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tbodt

Go right ahead! It probably already works with lsp-mode, but hell why not.

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Yoandy Rodriguez Martinez

No need, it work's fine with lsp-mode. Great stuff!!