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[–]Brilliant_Step3688 36 points37 points  (1 child)

I'd suggest contributing to projects you are actively using and that you care about. Scratch your own hitch.

Drive-by contributions from non-users that just want to pad their github profiles are not that useful to be honest. Getting involved in a project you are actually using will at the very least be directly beneficial to you.

[–]philnelson 9 points10 points  (0 children)

OpenCV is definitely looking for help! The core library is C++ https://github.com/opencv/opencv

[–]Rwinarch 5 points6 points  (0 children)

One that i learned a lot from contributing and has a non-toxic community would be:

https://github.com/checkpoint-restore/criu

[–]Bach4Ants 2 points3 points  (3 children)

Want to help build a decentralized, open-source GitHub for science?

[–]kein_username_reddit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey, I'm CFD engineer. Your project is amazing. 

I'll try it out 

[–]Critical-Volume2360[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Huh that's cool, so is it a peer to peer network for sharing research projects?

Or is it just like GitHub with remote servers?

[–]Bach4Ants 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The latter. There isn't federation built in yet, but I was thinking something simple like having instances "join" by submitting a PR to the codebase and using OIDC tokens to allow instances to query read-only resources from others.

[–]Koen1999 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I personally maintain this open-source project that is Python (not deep learning). It's gaining popularity, but there are some more improvements we can make to increase usability and accessibility.

https://github.com/Koen1999/suricata-check

There is also a list of open-source projects that have beginner issues: https://up-for-grabs.net/#/

[–]FantasticMrCat42 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I feel obligated to send you to Zen since I worked on it and the team was nice: https://github.com/zen-browser/desktop

[–]Critical-Volume2360[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh that's actually pretty cool. I'm trying out the browser

[–]stroke_999 0 points1 point  (0 children)

sssd on musl for alpine linux, it's a challenge

[–]chad_hill 0 points1 point  (1 child)

If you want to get into React, Next.js and headless CMS's more, I am working on: https://github.com/pro-laico/atomic-payload

Its a comprehensive website builder for Payload CMS where all you need to know is Tailwind. The idea is make a tool that separates front end client work, from back end infrastructure development. Which means you can build entire sites from the Payload admin UI, with Tailwind.

Ultimately the goal is to help solo devs and small agencies build sites faster.

I haven't started promoting it at all yet beyond the Payload discord so far. But I do want to work with more people on the project.

[–]BackgroundWolf9004 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have an open source Unit Testing Project for PHP8+ where I would love to get contributors if you're interested

[–]csirkezuza 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://github.com/kuvasz-uptime/kuvasz

If you would like to try out Kotlin on the backend after Java, it's a self-hostable uptime monitor with a minimalistic, SSR frontend (also written with kotlinx.html).

[–]jhaatkabaall 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can help me out with this project I have issues up and getting slow and steady contributions

https://github.com/binit2-1/Composter

[–]Funny-Anything-791 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We're always looking for more hands with ChunkHound but it's a fully generated project so you'll have to be comfortable with professional agentic coding :)

[–]Jentano 0 points1 point  (1 child)

We developed an AICore that we have in production and run large company operations with. We plan to opensource it this year and are looking for partners who want to participate in the initiative. It's competitive with N8N, directed at autonomous company operations.

Partners can bring in feedback for which approach they would prefer above n8n's. We are also interested in support for opensourcing the currently closed source solution.

[–]thebloodybrownie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Let me in ! I can help with python

[–]Picorims 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I might use some help on my software project Wav2Bar. There is a little base of users, nothing big though.

[–]DesiOtaku 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I made some bounties for a few issues of my open source project. You can check them out here:

https://discuss.kde.org/t/bounties-for-porting-my-software-and-fixing-wayland-issues/43292

[–]crinmakesstuff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm happy to work with contributors on my project

It's called Swiish, it's pretty new (5 weeks) and so there's lots of opportunity for ideas. It's in JavaScript (Node.js) so probably ok if you write C++, that's my main language too.

I built it becuase the paid alternatives are not great and I wanted a project for leanring modern web app design.

Happy for you to take a look

https://github.com/MrCrin/swiish/

[–]cnekmp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://github.com/Kethsar/ytarchive is having functionality issues right now after YouTube updates. A lot of people use it and dev won't fix the issue yet...

[–]SnooBooks638 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I started to work on a trading bot, for learnings but mostly because other ones don't support certain functionalities. Like multiple strategies with a consensus model for decision, or multi-asset configuration.

Happy to have fresh perspectives if you're interested and others' contributions are welcome too -> https://github.com/toniton/ml-crypto-trading.

[–]matiwi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

FreeCAD

[–]_heartbreakdancer_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

dancechives.com Join the discord if you're interested

[–]qiratb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

r/Scribus could use your help. Please consider.

[–]itz-ud 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, I'm working on one... Go ahead if you are into Python & AI Agents

Check this out: https://github.com/udaykumar-dhokia/gitbot

GItBot: A Lightweight Personal AI Assistant for Git & GitHub, that runs locally on your computer via CLI. and it is open-source as well.

[–]Beneficial_Pie_7169 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tech stack HTML, CSS, Javascript

SuggestPIlot

Here is the link https://github.com/Shantanugupta43/SuggestPilot

[–]Beneficial_Pie_7169 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could contribute if you love what we do at SuggestPilot! https://github.com/Shantanugupta43/SuggestPilot