So in the spirit of this community and not just to focus on the Reddit... issues... I thought it might be nice to get a topical conversation going in here.

Basically, what open source projects are you currently working on or are you heavily involved with?

I think it would be nice to see what projects people have on the go, get some publicity out there and otherwise talk about stuff that we should be discussing here.

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[–] IverCoder@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I'm working to make a FOSS SHAREit alternative, that also has spoofing capability with the said app.

[–] oranki@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm planning on writing a wrapper for Podman and systemd to make it possible to use kubectl commands to deploy and maintain applications. The idea is a middleground between Podman (or Docker) to real Kubernetes like k3s...

Not sure if anyone (even me) would find it interesting or useful. But a good excuse to learn more Go.

[–] qjammer@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds interesting! It could be useful for self hosting apps without the complexity of k8s.

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[–] teruma@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

I'm setting myself to contribute to OpenScan, though I've also developed a few little flutter widgets here and there for hobby spaces I participate in.

[–] Freaky@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Compactor is my Windows filesystem compression tool, good for clawing back space wasted by poorly-compressed games without having to faff about with the command line. I have a full rewrite in the pipeline that I'm procrastinating on.

ioztat is basically what zfs iostat would be if it existed — an iostat for ZFS datasets, rather than ZFS vdevs. It was born out of a script from Reddit's /r/zfs and in a slightly obsessive period I rewrote and expanded it into a pretty capable tool I'm quite proud of.

If you have any experience packaging software for your favourite Linux distribution — well, I'm a FreeBSD user, so please knock yourself out. I'm begging you.

num_threads is a tiny foundational Rust crate, most notably used by time in order to determine if it's safe to make certain syscalls. I have implementations for Open, Net, and DragonFlyBSD that I've been procrastinating on merging, because blessing unsafe code for platforms I don't use is scary. Moral support is welcomed.

[–] catacomb@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I contribute to Umbraco every so often because we use it at work and think they should get some help because it's been really useful for us. The community is very friendly and the devs are appreciative of good quality pull requests.

Some projects are kind of underwhelming. You can watch your PR you spent multiple nights on go completely unnoticed, without even a "thanks, we're getting around to checking this." I don't mind when it's some guy with a hobby project but I'm talking about projects run by companies.

I might look at Lemmy soon. I've been looking to help with something I actually have some personal stake in. It's hard to put effort in when you don't use it.

[–] fuzzzerd@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Umbraco is a fantastic open source project, as well as a great example of how open source can support a profitable company as well, through support, training, and certification programs.

I don't use it as much these days, as its not part of my day job, and for my hobby projects I'm using static site generators, I appreciate what Umbraco has, and how they do it. It really is great software, for users and developers.

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[–] RayJW@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Honestly not working on it at the moment but been meaning to for a long time: lapce.dev I'm tired of every application being another Elextron wrapper with outdated versions having issues. VSCodium for me literally takes hundreds of MBs for just a small like ~20 files project and the native Wayland support is still lacking big time. It's time we go back to native applications!

[–] Daeraxa@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do like Lapce and I'm fairly active on the Discord, I was considering using it as my Atom replacement intially before I joined the Pulsar team. Excited to see what Floem ends up bringing to it, lots of UI stuff put on hold because it was just too hard in Druid.

[–] RayJW@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Definitely, it's already a great code editor, but it still needs some work to be a good ~IDE replacement. But it's looking great and the progress is impressively fast.

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[–] pendsv@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

For the last year I have been contributing to Portmaster. Open source application firewall that focuses on privacy. You can check it here https://safing.io We recently did v1.1.0

[–] PorkrollPosadist@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

None. Though I've been fucking around with FreeCAD a lot and would like to share some designs if I finish anything useful.

[–] neytjs@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

My biggest free/open source project is FreeMazes3D, a puzzle solving game involving procedurally generated mazes. I developed it using various JavaScript technologies (especially Babylon.js and Electron). I feel that most of the core content has already been created, but I do plan to do a few minor update releases down the road...

https://github.com/neytjs/FreeMazes3D/

[–] andypiper@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

As of recently, I am officially helping Mastodon with developer relations and documentation! I also do some promotion / writing and speaking, and other work with the MicroPython project - and the Awesome MicroPython list. Beyond that, I offer a bunch of drive-by pull requests to smaller projects that I use, when I can!

I'm a supporting member of the EFF, PSF, and OSI (I ran the OSI booth at State of Open this year), and I am an ambassador for OpenUK

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