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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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

this is, no shit, exactly the thread I’ve been chasing with a bunch of my projects. a lot of the hardware I use the most is either handmade or heavily modified with bespoke components, and that process has already produced so many things I’ll likely keep using forever that I’ve been looking at extending it to the rest of my computing environment

to that end, I’ve already got a static site generator and operating system distro/programming workbench that are both a little bit of polishing away from an initial public release, and I plan to release them under anti-commercial terms and form a collective to manage those projects (and maybe down the line reform it as a cooperative, if any of the projects get big enough that it makes sense)

organizing around these principles wouldn’t by any means be required to participate in the new community, but I feel like it’d be a good vibe to start on