OSD/DPS Fall 2018 Open Source Project Ideas

Most popular project ideas

1. DarkChatter decentralized messaging over low-level WiFi

New project to build ad-hoc, mesh-networking style messaging.

Research

• https://www.opengarden.com/firechat/ (proprietary) does something like this over bluetooth and wifi on iOS and Android
• Android supports WiFi Direct https://developer.android.com/reference/android/net/wifi/p2p/package-summary (iOS doesn't seem to)
• Pure p2p wifi at low level doesn't seem supported without rooting your Android Phone

2. Seneca Web Extension

New project to build a browser extension to fix various Seneca web sites and their UI/UX issues:

• Blackboard
• Student Centre
• Others?

What kind of Fixes do we need?

•  ?
•  ?
•  ?

Research

• Could fork [1] or [2] to get started. Both do something similar to what we'd need.
• Lots of other existing browser extension projects on GitHub

3. Speech-To-Text for HTML Coding in VSCode

New project to build a Visual Studio Extension that allows voice commands for creating HTML documents.

Need to write a VSCode Extension, pick a Speech-To-Text library to integrate, create a "grammar" or "vocabulary" bound to commands for inserting HTML tags.

Research

• Lots of other existing VSCode extension projects on GitHub
• [3] for voice commands?
• [4]
• [5]
• [6]

4. Turn-based creative writing web app

New project to build a turn-based creative writing app, where people can collaborate on writing stories.

Research

• Lots of existing editor tech we could use:
  • [7]
  • [8]
  • [9]
  • [10]
  • etc. Good comparison (if somewhat biased) here

• Questions:
  • Support for Mobile?
  • Support for text based?
  • Support for other platforms? Slack, Discord, ???
  • Serverless or with a backend? Do you want accounts, publishing, etc, or p2p with some kind of WebRTC style networked system?
  • Publishing of final product into different formats? e.g., [11]

5. Seneca Student Personal GitHub Dashboard

New project to create a web-based GitHub Dashboard suitable for Seneca students doing open source. Some ideas:

• track status of things you've worked on (Issues, Bugs, Projects)
• track projects you want to try next, showing you possible good bugs you could do

Research

• Lots of GitHub dashboards already exist that might do some of what we want.
• Even more web dashboard components and projects we could use
• GitHub API allows for querying data easily

6.

Exiting project for a Node.js, React chat app. Needs work to make it standalone and published on npm

2.

New project to build ad-hoc, mesh-networking style messaging.

People

• • • (EXISTING) Unity side-scrolling video game in C# (9 ✔️)
    • (EXISTING) App to aggregate and download starred GitHub projects (9 ✔️)
    • (NEW) Resume/Portfolio generator: simple static site generation for non-technical students (9 ✔️)

Other ideas presented

• • • (NEW) Open Source Dwarf Fortress clone: ASCII style game (8 ✔️)
    • (NEW) RSS bot for when wiki's are updated (7 ✔️)
    • (NEW) Browser extension for remembering where you left off & resume YouTube videos (7 ✔️)
    • (NEW) YouTube bulk downloader using youtube-dl (provide a list of links to videos to download) (6 ✔️)
    • (NEW) Social Media Dashboard - see analytics from multiple social media platforms (5 ✔️)
    • (NEW) Web bot detector/blocker (4 ✔️)
    • (EXISTING) Cross platform command-line utility for searching Amazon, Google, StackOverflow etc in your browser (2 ✔️)
    • (NEW) Test wrapper script for running tests from different frameworks (1 ✔️)
    • (EXISTING) My Little Pony search GUI for data and analytics of existing, large fan fiction database; built with Java Swing (1 ✔️)
    • (NEW) Text diff tool for dealing with non line-based changes (1 ✔️)