OSD/DPS Fall 2018 Open Source Project Ideas
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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
People
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?
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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
People
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]
People
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:
- 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]
People
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
People
6.
Exiting project for a Node.js, React chat app. Needs work to make it standalone and published on npm
Research
People
2.
New project to build ad-hoc, mesh-networking style messaging.
Research
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 ✔️)
