OSD/DPS Fall 2018 Open Source Project Ideas

OSD/DPS Fall 2018 Open Source Projects

This a first draft at starting some open source projects in our course. The following are the most requested projects as suggested by your colleagues.

Tips on starting an open source project:

• https://opensource.com/business/16/6/10-tips-new-github-projects
• https://opensource.guide/starting-a-project/

1. DarkChatter decentralized messaging over low-level WiFi

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

Repo: TBD

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

People

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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?

Repo: TBD

Research

• Could fork Refined Twitter or Refined GitHub to get started. Both do something similar to what we'd need.
• Lots of other existing browser extension projects on GitHub
• What kind of Fixes do we need?
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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.

Repo: TBD

Research

• Lots of other existing VSCode extension projects on GitHub
• https://docs.ourcodeworld.com/projects/artyom-js for voice commands?
• https://github.com/googleapis/nodejs-speech
• https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech#using-the-nodejs-package
• https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/extensions/overview

People

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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:
  • https://prosemirror.net/
  • https://github.com/ianstormtaylor/slate
  • https://github.com/quilljs/quill
  • https://draftjs.org/
  • 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., https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor.js

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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

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6. NodeChat

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

Repo: https://github.com/OTRChat/NodeChat

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People

• Corey James
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7. Unity side-scrolling video game in C#

Existing project, Unity based game engine/side-scroller puzzle game written in C#.

Repo: TBD

Research

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People

• Nathan Misener
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8. Supernova

Existing app written in Rust to aggregate and download starred GitHub projects.

Repo: TBD

Research

• Does this dove-tail at all with the GitHub dashboard project?

People

• Stuart Crust
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9. Seneca Student Resume/Portfolio Static Site Generator

New project to create a turn-key resume/portfolio generator for Seneca students: simple static site generation for non-technical students using gh-pages and GitHub.

Repo: TBD

Research

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Other ideas presented

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