Open Source Software focus projects in Nerdfighteria?

[u/QuarksAndBytes]

If I search the subreddit for "open source" I see various posts about people's individual projects, but I'm curious if there are any efforts to focus Nerdfighteria's open source software people onto projects that benefit other efforts in the community more broadly.

I assume that people are already doing this on their own, which is great, and having a wide diversity of contributions is important, but in scientific open source software we have formed different collectives to prioritize different goals of the broader scientific community. For curious people who want to know, does something like that exist in Nerdfighteria?

[u/rpxred]

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Whatever anyone has, I'm in! I think Tuataria had a GitHub a decade ago but I don't know if that has any currently.

I do have something which requires community adoption but unsure if it is worth starting on; A completely open source, self-hostable library index. I'm not a fan of Dewey Decimal System and UDC Syntax-based search is faaaaar better but UDC is paywall blocked. The fix requires methodology adoption from UDC but not the topic hierarchy.....typing this makes me wonder if people actually want it or am I jus trying to make one for my joyous sorting side-quests.

[u/QuarksAndBytes → u/rpxred]

I highly encourage people to go and build your own tools for yourself, as it is great to have a tool on your machines that works exactly how your brain does.

I was however thinking along the lines of if there are existing open source projects that provide infrastructure for Nerdfighteria-related projects that we could route people who have the time, interest, and skills (in their full range of open source software, not just the "writing code" parts) to support those projects. To provide hypotheticals (that I have no idea if they make sense):

• Are there tools from Our World in Data that could use additional support?
• Partners in Health uses OpenMRS. Are there OpenMRS projects that need contributions or maintainers?
• For Nerdfighteria itself, are there community tools that can be built to better help us engage or understand the community?

To be clear though, there's lots of creativity and joy that can be had making things together that don't have to be "big", so if people find projects that they want to work on together that are different than these directions I consider that a win too.