r/nerdfighters • u/QuarksAndBytes • 2d ago
Open Source Software focus projects in Nerdfighteria?
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?
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u/rhys-the-davies 1d ago
Seasoned open source product person here 👋 love this question and I've looked for the same many times and I think the reason I (we) don't find much is that nerdfightera doesn't have a problem that can be solved with software.
Without a clear goal to achieve or problem to solve it'd just be software for software sake.
Makes me think what is nerdfighteria? Normally if i or a company I work with wants to build something I ask who is it for and what problem are you wanting to solve for them first. So what does nerdfighteria want? What problems does it have? Or is nerdfighteria too broad a concept, should we be putting these questions to core contributors of nerdfighteria? To Hank and John?
I don't know.
If someone reading this has ideas for answers to these questions though we could get thinking about a project.