jdumont

jdumont

Looking for open source project to help / learn on

Hey all,

I’ve been learning Elixir for a while now, and have used Phoenix to build a few simple apps, but feel like I’m not really breaking out of “tutorial-mode” where I’m either just following guides, or doing really trivial stuff.

I think trying to get to grips with a project that other, more experienced Elixir developers are working on too could really help get me past this plateau I seem to be stuck on. If there are any open source projects around that I could help on, whilst learning, I’d be really interested in getting stuck in!

In terms of my history, I’ve built reasonably complex apps before with Node/JS, but Elixir and it’s best practises are obviously very different. I’ve never contributed to OS before either, so that might be a learning curve, but I feel that OS has given me such a leg-up in these early years of my career, that I’d like to start trying to contribute back to it if I can.

So anyone need an extra set of hands on a project?

Cheers, Jamie.

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bglusman

bglusman

@jdumont depending on whether you’re more interested in Elixir libraries or contributing to/working on a large Phoenix code base, my side project is looking for help growing beyond single-maintainer and adding/changing some features based on live tests with first real world users as well as growing to multiple locations/organizations. It’s a nice social-good/pro-bono application that helps me feel good about some of what I do with my open source time anyway!

It’s a tool for small to medium size pantry programs/food banks, to help give food recipients choice in what they receive while following USDA guidelines about balanced diets etc.

The code is currently hosted here GitHub - openpantry/open_pantry: A management system for pantry programs to help people eat healthy meals with dignity · GitHub (may move to its own github org, I know the org name now is a mouthful) and people can see a demo of the production app (such as it is) in “guest user” mode with no ability to take actions here open-pantry.herokuapp.com/en/food_selections (will probably move domain to openpantry.io when we get around to it, help welcome but low priority). Drop me a line if you need help getting set up (there’s a branch that I want one person to use successfully before I merge in, removing a postgis requirement that I stupidly put in while prototyping in early days, so anyone setting up on that branch and reporting success or issues would be welcome)

AstonJ

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Have a look here Jamie:

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