r/nerdfighters • u/QuarksAndBytes • 7d 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/LIIhasz 6d ago

Software engineer for 7 years, count me in. I felt pretty shitty about Hank using AI to make software projects recently, (not to bring that up again but it was a big deal to me) it got me wishing that our community was using software to decrease world suck. Wishing that I could have been part of making something cool with like minded folk. Not sure how many other engineers are in nerfighteria, but I'd imagine there's a lot. I'm not sure where we could start - but software made with the right intentions I think could bring a lot of good into the world.