

Ask HN: What kinds of help are open source projects looking for? - windsurfer

What kind of person are you looking for? What tasks are needing to be accomplished within your open source project? Is there anything simple you would like people to help with?<p>(inspired by this post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2294072)
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mindcrime
_What kind of person are you looking for?_

Curious, motivated, and has initiative. Not scared to take on things that are
"too big." Smart, confident, but not too arrogant.

 _What tasks are needing to be accomplished within your open source project?_

There's all sorts of stuff my project(s) could use help with. Simple stuff
like going through GSP (Groovy Server Pages) pages and replacing instances of
hard-coded URL strings with the appropriate tags that generate that stuff, and
more involved stuff like UI improvements; to hard-core backend stuff involving
experimental / research-oriented machine-learning stuff.

 _Is there anything simple you would like people to help with?_

Sure,there's always low hanging fruit that is good for people just getting
involved in a project. If you want to take a look at my project, see:

<http://code.google.com/p/neddick> and/or <http://code.google.com/p/quoddy>

Or if you'd rather skip straight to the source code, see:

<https://github.com/fogbeam/Neddick> and/or
<https://github.com/fogbeam/Quoddy>

