Looking for Approachable Open Source Projects to Contribute to

• pingnoo

  20 230 0.0 C++

  An open-source cross-platform traceroute/ping analyser.

  

My project, pingnoo. https://www.pingnoo.com or https://github.com/nedrysoft/pingnoo

• rssguard

  59 1,357 9.8 C++

  Feed reader (and podcast player) which supports RSS/ATOM/JSON and many web-based feed services.

I am gladly waiting for some contributors for my RSS Guard - relatively well-known multi-protocol and multi-account feed reader with sync. Used by 2 000 - 10 000 regular users.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  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.

  

• assimp

  37 10,234 9.5 C++

  The official Open-Asset-Importer-Library Repository. Loads 40+ 3D-file-formats into one unified and clean data structure.

  

You can find our repository here on Github: https://github.com/assimp/assimp

• xournalpp

  221 10,180 9.4 C++

  Xournal++ is a handwriting notetaking software with PDF annotation support. Written in C++ with GTK3, supporting Linux (e.g. Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, SUSE), macOS and Windows 10. Supports pen input from devices such as Wacom Tablets.

  

I would suggest xournalpp it uses modern c++ and its codebase is quite simple to understand.

• pioneer

  38 1,558 9.7 C++

  A game of lonely space adventure

  

pioneerspacesim

• C++ Format

  161 19,262 9.8 C++

  A modern formatting library

  

Personally, I like extensions to the standard library for your use case, for example span-lite or fmtlib. Start on the simple issues and respect contributer guidelines.

• Labrador

  10 1,074 3.9 C++

  EspoTek Labrador is a USB device that transforms your PC or smartphone into a fully-featured electronics lab. This repo holds all of the source code!

I have personally contributed to Labrador and The Powder Toy. They were both quite friendly.

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  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.

  

• ags

  7 664 9.9 C++

  AGS editor and engine source code (by adventuregamestudio)

  

I would love to see people contributing cpp code on here : https://github.com/adventuregamestudio/ags

• mylang

  2 29 0.0 C++

  A simple programming language inspired by Python, JavaScript and C

If you're not looking for a popular project, but for a small C++ project where you can contribute to have fun, improve your C++ skills, and get some help, maybe take a look at my educational programming language written in C++17: https://github.com/vvaltchev/mylang

• tilck

  15 2,241 8.9 C

  A Tiny Linux-Compatible Kernel

I have another project, which is much more mature and has a ton of documentation for contributors, because I especially care about that aspect, but it's an operating system and most of it is written in C. Its unit tests are written in C++, however. It's called Tilck: https://github.com/vvaltchev/tilck

• HPX

  15 2,417 9.8 C++

  The C++ Standard Library for Parallelism and Concurrency

  

I come from a group called STE||AR where we develop HPX, "a C++ Standard Library for Parallelism and Concurrency".

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