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From: Patricia Shanahan on 21 Jun 2010 15:22 Simon Brooke wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 08:44:58 -0700, Patricia Shanahan wrote: > >> I'm looking for an open source project to join. I want to get back to >> the challenge of non-trivial programming. After years of solo work on my >> dissertation research, I would like to be part of a team. Also, just >> doing programming exercises to keep my hand in seems a waste of my >> skills. >> >> My main requirement is an active project, with a team that works >> together, and multiple users outside the team. I am willing learn any >> required programming languages or libraries, though I am currently most >> fluent in Java. >> >> I have 32 years experience in the computer industry, including work on >> compilers, operating systems, and multiprocessor computer architecture. >> I completed my Ph.D. in computer science at UCSD last December, with a >> 4.0 GPA on the coursework. >> >> I would contribute to a suitable project in whatever way would be most >> useful, including programming and bug fixing, but the more technical >> challenge the better. >> >> Any recommendations? > > Seriously, I think the interesting places for Java programmers to play at > the moment are mostly on Android; that's where there is a ferment of > rapidly developing new ideas, the way there was on server side web stuff > ten years ago. That's an interesting area to look at. My research was in the area of ubiquitous computing, so there might be a tie in. > > Or go for fundamental utility stuff, like Apache Commons, which is used > by a lot of other things (but there you're joining a well established > team with established reputations and hierarchies). > If anything, a well established team is a positive, not a negative. My attitude to technical leadership is "Been there, done that." I would prefer a project where someone else is already dealing with the organizational hassles, and I can just do some fun problem solving. Patricia
From: Jeff Higgins on 21 Jun 2010 15:48 On 6/21/2010 11:44 AM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: > I'm looking for an open source project to join. > > Any recommendations? > Not a recommendation but a suggestion for a source of inspiration. Google's Summer of Code archives. No shortage of projects looking for contributors.
From: Alf P. Steinbach /Usenet on 21 Jun 2010 16:36 * Patricia Shanahan, on 21.06.2010 21:22: > Simon Brooke wrote: >> On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 08:44:58 -0700, Patricia Shanahan wrote: >> >>> I'm looking for an open source project to join. I want to get back to >>> the challenge of non-trivial programming. After years of solo work on my >>> dissertation research, I would like to be part of a team. Also, just >>> doing programming exercises to keep my hand in seems a waste of my >>> skills. >>> >>> My main requirement is an active project, with a team that works >>> together, and multiple users outside the team. I am willing learn any >>> required programming languages or libraries, though I am currently most >>> fluent in Java. >>> >>> I have 32 years experience in the computer industry, including work on >>> compilers, operating systems, and multiprocessor computer architecture. >>> I completed my Ph.D. in computer science at UCSD last December, with a >>> 4.0 GPA on the coursework. >>> >>> I would contribute to a suitable project in whatever way would be most >>> useful, including programming and bug fixing, but the more technical >>> challenge the better. >>> >>> Any recommendations? >> >> Seriously, I think the interesting places for Java programmers to play >> at the moment are mostly on Android; that's where there is a ferment >> of rapidly developing new ideas, the way there was on server side web >> stuff ten years ago. > > That's an interesting area to look at. My research was in the area of > ubiquitous computing, so there might be a tie in. > >> >> Or go for fundamental utility stuff, like Apache Commons, which is >> used by a lot of other things (but there you're joining a well >> established team with established reputations and hierarchies). > > If anything, a well established team is a positive, not a negative. My > attitude to technical leadership is "Been there, done that." I would > prefer a project where someone else is already dealing with the > organizational hassles, and I can just do some fun problem solving. With Thunderbird 3.0 the Mozilla folks introduced a lot of undesirable functionality, in particular messing up quoting. When you quote source code, and the original message has "flowed" text format (this is where a space at the end of line indicates a continuing paragraph), then the beast now collapses every sequence of spaces to a single space, except indentation, which it removes completely. It's merely Very Bad for quoting C++. It's completely unaccceptable for quoting Python, where indentation is significant. If you could join that team and fix (read: remove) this single, uh, "feature", the World would be forever in your debt! Not sure what languages they use. JavaScript and C, but possibly also others. Cheers, - Alf -- blog at <url: http://alfps.wordpress.com>
From: Pascal J. Bourguignon on 21 Jun 2010 16:43 Patricia Shanahan <pats(a)acm.org> writes: > I'm looking for an open source project to join. I want to get back to > the challenge of non-trivial programming. After years of solo work on my > dissertation research, I would like to be part of a team. Also, just > doing programming exercises to keep my hand in seems a waste of my skills. > > My main requirement is an active project, with a team that works > together, and multiple users outside the team. I am willing learn any > required programming languages or libraries, though I am currently most > fluent in Java. > > I have 32 years experience in the computer industry, including work on > compilers, operating systems, and multiprocessor computer architecture. > I completed my Ph.D. in computer science at UCSD last December, with a > 4.0 GPA on the coursework. > > I would contribute to a suitable project in whatever way would be most > useful, including programming and bug fixing, but the more technical > challenge the better. > > Any recommendations? You could work on ABCL or CLforJava, two Common Lisp implementations targetting the JVM. http://abcl.sourceforge.net http://clforjava.org/ Or even Clojure. http://clojure.org/ For a more technical subject, applying the extensions of http://www.managedruntime.org/ to other implementations than the JVM would be interesting too (eg. SBCL, clisp, or even Python). http://sbcl.sourceforge.net http://clisp.cons.org http://www.python.org -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/
From: Arved Sandstrom on 21 Jun 2010 17:58
Patricia Shanahan wrote: > I'm looking for an open source project to join. I want to get back to > the challenge of non-trivial programming. After years of solo work on my > dissertation research, I would like to be part of a team. Also, just > doing programming exercises to keep my hand in seems a waste of my skills. > > My main requirement is an active project, with a team that works > together, and multiple users outside the team. I am willing learn any > required programming languages or libraries, though I am currently most > fluent in Java. > > I have 32 years experience in the computer industry, including work on > compilers, operating systems, and multiprocessor computer architecture. > I completed my Ph.D. in computer science at UCSD last December, with a > 4.0 GPA on the coursework. > > I would contribute to a suitable project in whatever way would be most > useful, including programming and bug fixing, but the more technical > challenge the better. > > Any recommendations? > > Thanks, > > Patricia Considering the fact that you're learning Haskell, would you have a preference for a project involving a functional language? I myself have been picking up Haskell and F# for some time now, but seem to be gravitating towards Scala - perhaps a Scala project would be to your liking? I don't exactly have any specific projects in mind but I'm thinking if you expressed a preference in this regard it might help other people out. AHS -- The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry. -- Henry Petroski |