Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate? (April 2022)

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  • glicol

    Graph-oriented live coding language and music/audio DSP library written in Rust

    - support both high-level music sequencing and low-level sample-level audio synthesis

    You can try it here:

    https://glicol.org/

    It would be great that if you can give me some feedback here or on GitHub:

    https://github.com/chaosprint/glicol

  • camera-preview

    Capacitor plugin that allows camera interaction from HTML code

    Looking for Swift, Android and Typescript developers to help with camera-preview, an open source cross-platform embedded camera for Capacitor and Ionic.

    I recently got involved and my goal is to add frame processing so you can run object detection and models on the preview frames. But first the project needs to stabilise.

    We're a welcoming community and all contributions are very gratefully received. I take care of the project admin so contributors can focus on what they enjoy.

    https://github.com/capacitor-community/camera-preview

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  • Milvus

    A cloud-native vector database, storage for next generation AI applications

    We're actully a group of nerds looking for Go/Cpp engineers familiar with distributed system, database and high performance computing. Vector search is the new trend and let's make something different together~

    https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus

  • sioyek

    Sioyek is a PDF viewer with a focus on textbooks and research papers

    Any contribution is welcome, but I'm mainly looking for maintainers for linux packages.

    https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek

  • green-metrics-tool

    Measure energy and carbon consumption of software

    Would love to find like minded people in this domain.

    https://github.com/green-coding-berlin/green-metrics-tool / https://www.green-coding.org

  • spinup

    spinup repository

    Sure, would love to collaborate on the Spinup project. It's in its early stage, so a lot of opportunities to have a huge impact.

    https://github.com/spinup-host/spinup. Any open source RDS alternative.

    We do have a bi-weekly standup and a small group of 5 members. Most of us just want to learn Go, Docker and Databases. Feel free to ask any questions. Thanks.

  • vodon-pro

    Vodon Pro is a video player designed for esports coaches to review footage of players.

    I've been doing a bit of work in the esports space. Two projects, the first which allows freelance coaches to leave reviews on footage that's been given to them. You can see an example of a coach using it here:

    https://kilk-valorant.vodon.gg/

    The other is a tool that I've built in conjunction with a coach from a French esports team which allows the coach to add footage of the individuals players in a match, synchronise the videos, then view the match while jumping around each of the individual viewpoints instantly. This is an open source tool here:

    https://github.com/Rodeoclash/vodon-pro

    (I have some ideas around hosted services to support the review process which could be subscription based).

    At heart I'm a developer, so I'd really like to connect with someone who is both in the esports space and business focused. Contact details in my HN profile.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  • Authorizer

    Authorizer is a Password Manager for Android. It emulates an HID keyboard over USB and enters your credentials on your target device. Additionally it supports OTP :key::mobile_phone_off: (by tejado)

    I’m happy to collaborate on Authorizer - a hardware password manager based on old Android phones.

    Next milestone: smartcard integration over USB.

    I would like to build a lib to abstract USB Gadgets on Linux. This is necessary for adding smartcard support (e.g., to store your GPG keys in Authorizer). I already did a lot of research about it, but more on an amateur level as I’m not a kernel dev.

    One further milestone on Authorizer is finding a next device (cheap, not too old Android, smaller, …) to base the development on.

    Project: https://github.com/tejado/Authorizer

  • HamVerBot

    #f1's favourite F1 bot

    Greetings, I’m working on my first “real” Rust project which is an IRC bot for the #f1 channel on Libera. All it does is post the results of a race into the channel. You can find the code at: https://github.com/obviyus/hamverbot

    It’s my first time building something async in Rust and using Tokio so I’d love to have some experienced Crustacean eyeballs on it. Please feel free to drop suggestions, pull requests or general advice for working with Rust.

    Cheers.

  • tock

    A secure embedded operating system for microcontrollers

    I'm still going at my bike computer - you know, the open source, hackable one.

    I spent the past 2 months improving Tock OS - added GPS and file system - and yesterday got the display running:

    https://github.com/tock/tock/issues/2846#issuecomment-108617...

    I could use some help adding new drivers (esp. Bluetooth, but also simple ones like touch screen) and if someone explained Bluetooth Low Energy or Apache NimBLE to me, that would be awesome.

    Contact me through the web page (which needs some work too): https://jazda.org/

  • Stride Game Engine

    Stride Game Engine (formerly Xenko)

    If anyone has decent experience in C#/.NET and/or graphics programming, you are welcome to join the developer team of the Stride game engine.

    https://github.com/stride3d/stride

    The code base is already mature and very professional. The quality standards are fairly high, but that's a nice challenge and you can even learn a lot, depending on your level of experience.

    As for the history, Stride was developed commercially by Silicon Studio for about 10 years but couldn't complete with the big two on that level. So it was open-sourced about 3 years ago and the main developer is still maintaining it, but he has a full-time job. The team isn't very big yet, but quite capable people.

    It's a great product and the only truly open-source C# game engine with a high-end render engine and proper asset pipeline. The shader system is the best I've ever seen, it's absolutely mind-blowing.

    Let me know if you want to learn more about it...

  • nRF52840Doom

    Doom ported to a nRF52840-based BLE dongle

    A bike computer is the name for a device you put on your bike to show you useful info like speed etc.

    Typically they are about as flexible as calculators, but this CPU has been shown to run Doom, so it's a general-purpose computer too :)

    https://github.com/next-hack/nRF52840Doom

  • cloud-carbon-footprint

    Cloud Carbon Footprint is a tool to estimate energy use (kilowatt-hours) and carbon emissions (metric tons CO2e) from public cloud usage

  • oxigraph

    SPARQL graph database

    I am currently building a single-node graph database implementing the SPARQL query language. It is written in Rust and is named Oxigraph: https://github.com/oxigraph/oxigraph

    I would love to get help, I have a working MVP but there are a lot of work left to get good performances for which I would love help. Some current problems are:

  • TablaM

    The practical relational programing language for data-oriented applications

    I'm building a spiritual successor of the Base/FoxPro family of languages (https://tablam.org) that marry ML + relational + array paradigms with a bit of imperative support.

    This is on Rust, and apart of the fancy buzzwords, what it set apart from many is that it (plan to!) be a better fit for business/data intensive applications.

    Now I'm reworking the whole parsing so i can get great error messages like as Rust/Elm.

    ---

    As long-term plans, I wish to be like FoxPro/Access and be a full-stack development environment, with nice RDBMS integration, and how know, maybe build a new kind of RDBMs.

  • react2solid

    ReactJS to SolidJS Converter aka Transpiler

    react2solid is a ReactJS to SolidJS code converter https://github.com/rrjanbiah/react2solid

    I have started the development today (after months of thinking & gathering ideas).

    Any contribution is welcome. Would prefer contributions in to the code transformer rules; something similar to https://github.com/rrjanbiah/react2solid/blob/main/_transfor...

  • parserkiosk

    A Proof of Concept multi-lingual test generation suite intended for parsers

    I'm working on a multi-lingual test generation suite intended for parsers.

    I was shocked when I read about JSON interoperability issues and decided to build something to combat parser quirks and disagreements across multiple languages/implementations.

    Essentially, it uses jinja2 templates to generate tests from yaml files.

    Open to all sorts of contributions, especially test driving feedback from Info Sec. researchers and/or parser developers. Also, templates for new languages.

    https://github.com/R9295/parserkiosk

  • soundboard

    Simple soundboard app with MIDI control (by slipmatio)

    - A simple desktop soundboard app w/ MIDI-control: https://github.com/slipmatio/soundboard

    I have a vision of building basically the GitLab for artists: a comprehensive tool stack for collaborative planning and playing live shows, marketing, and connecting with listeners, all in one easy to use place.

    The current stack of all my projects is Python (Django, Starlette/FastAPI) and TypeScript (Vue). I've recently started to re-write the older stuff and in the process open source the parts. All the recent projects are now on GitHub: https://github.com/slipmatio

    If you're interested in collaboration or testing out some of these tools, you can contact me either by email ville @ the project domain, or ping @uninen on twitter :)

  • datastation

    App to easily query, script, and visualize data from every database, file, and API.

    I've got some good first projects if you're interested in OSS data tools and have some Go experience.

    Check out: https://github.com/multiprocessio/datastation/blob/main/GOOD...

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