should we start a community to announce and seek contributors for open source projects? (awful.systems)

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given the absolute fucking state of the open source community in general, and the fact that hacker news of all places is where the majority of new open source projects get discovered, is there any interest in starting a community here where folks can announce and solicit for help with their open source projects?

we could possibly use NotAwfulTech, but:

I kind of want to keep self-promotion out of that community
my code is probably awful for everyone else, that's why I'm seeking contributors

let me know if anyone's down for the new community or wants to expand the scope of NotAwfulTech to include stuff like this. if you're on team new community also feel free to suggest a name

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[-] fasterandworse@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This project was in my mind when I wrote this https://openmovement.org/

[-] self@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago

this is exactly the kind of project I’d love to collaborate on, even if it’s a bit out of my area of expertise! the first thing that came to mind when I opened the page was “huh I wonder how much of this I could make 3D printable” and now I’m tempted to try it and release STLs and nonprintable parts lists for folks to make their own watches.

the same thing applies to a wide variety of other designs — I’d love to grab a well-documented open source keyboard design and swap its circuit board out for an open source FPGA dev board and use that as a whole reconfigurable computing platform, for example

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