Hello!
I’ve been using FOSS on my phone, laptop and desktop for a few years now and never had the opportunity or the bravery to contribute to any project.
I’ve been thinking for a while now, how could I give something to the community?
I’m a web developer, so obviously that’s what this project idea is all about. A website where we can have a few things, very useful for the FOSS community.
I wanted to ask the lemmy community what they think about it, because maybe it already exists something similar or if you have some ideas or feedback.
The idea:
As mentioned before, I’m planing on a creation of a “central hub” for the FOSS community.
I was thinking on a website where we can have:
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Events/Calendar: A place where we can see in a simple way all the events, meets up or similar in the FOSS community, with a calendar to see the exact dates and events with a filter to be able to select specific countries or tags.
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Documentation: A place where we can create documentation for projects that don’t have the documentation or is very basic.
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Ideas: A place where we can share ideas for projects, look for people to/for help or look for feedback and try to make them real.
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Tracker: A place where we can log in with our GitHub/Codeberg/GitLab… accounts and be able to track all the project we are contributing in a simple way.
These are my early ideas and what I’ve been thinking about. Maybe some of them won’t see the light, maybe all of them or even more things will see light.
I would love to see what you guys have to say about this idea!
Thanks for taking your time reading this!
The thing is that this would mean you also need to list the non-free projects that you are looking an alternative for (otherwise you wouldn’t be able to map them to their free software equivalents). And in order to not repeat the same lists, you will end up also having to list equivalents between closed source software (since the alternatives to Paint Shop Pro and Photoshop are likely gonna be the same).
This essentially would make it a subset of existing places like https://alternativeto.net/ where you can find alternatives to a software and filter to only show the alternatives that are open source.
Except it wouldn’t have listings for non-free software, it would just mention “similar” software in some box down the page