the previous post was here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42157556

This is also a repost from the original thread, but FSF maintains a list of projects that may need help: https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Collection:High_Priority_Proj...

Super ZZ Zero

A game engine with many similarities like ZZT and MegaZeux.

Written in C with SDL1.

There are many things that help is possible (you are not required to help with all of these things):

- Bug reports (and patches to fix them if you have them)

- Feature suggestions

- Complaining if some documentation is unclear or incorrect (and suggestions about how to improve it)

- Porting

- Code review

- Testing

- Use of the software, if you are interested to use it for making any game

https://github.com/zzo38/superzz0

You may also use my NNTP server for communication (e.g. in case you do not have a account on GitHub).

Scorpion protocol/file-format

This project actually has several pieces some of which are usable independent from each other.

Some parts are written in C, but some parts are specifications which are independent of the programming language that is used for implementation.

https://github.com/zzo38/scorpion

Some things that help would be possible with, includes (but is not necessarily limited to):

- Support TLS in scorpiond.

- Better support for TLS in astroget.

- Support HTTP POST and HTTP PUT in astroget.

- Additional protocols in astroget.

- Bug reports for these programs (and patches to fix them if you have them).

- Suggestions relating to the specification (including if any part is unclear).

- The improved TLS library interface (see the "tlslib" directory). OpenSSL is confusing, and having a better API would be helpful. (Many things are I cannot figure out how to work with OpenSSL)

- Fonts for other TRON planes.

You may also use IRC or my NNTP server for communication (e.g. in case you do not have a account on GitHub).

Free Hero Mesh

A game engine for puzzle games such as Sokoban, Hero Hearts, etc. This program was started as a FOSS version of Everett Kaser's MESH:Hero engine, because I wanted to play Hero Hearts on Linux and I wanted to avoid many of the limitations.

Written in C with SDL1 and SQLite3. Some of the scripts needed for compiling are written in JavaScript (but perhaps should be rewritten in C).

Some things that it would be possible to help:

- Bug reports and feature suggestions.

- Improvements to the software.

- Conversions from other puzzle games.

- If anyone has made any interesting puzzles with this.

- The puzzles in the FALLING set that use the Closer Seeker class do not work properly, and I do not know what is wrong. Do you know?

https://github.com/zzo38/freeheromesh

You may also use IRC or my NNTP server for communication (e.g. in case you do not have a account on GitHub).

What a great idea! Thanks!

I've been working on Habitat for the past year and a half on my own. It's a FOSS self hosted platform for communities to discover their local area.

I'm using PHP/Symfony, Docker Compose, Ansible, Leaflet JS/OpenStreetMap, HTMX, Cypress, TipTap, Dropzone, PhotoSwipe, Bootstrap

If you have experience with any of these, it would be wonderful to have some help.

- The idea: https://carlnewton.github.io/posts/location-based-social-net...

- A build update and plan: https://carlnewton.github.io/posts/building-habitat/

- The repository: https://github.com/carlnewton/habitat

- The project board: https://github.com/users/carlnewton/projects/2

I've added some "help wanted" and "good first issue" tags to some items in there.

Thanks for the opportunity! I'm working on https://klutz.co.in . It is a totally free website to use any LLM to chat (also chat with any website) and 19 other free AI Tools.

Level: Super Easy to Use

Github repo: https://github.com/Unselfisheologism/KLUTZ

Help needed for: marketing and monetization strategies

Email: jeffrinjames99@gmail.com