October is a month of celebration of open-source software, also known with another title Hacktoberfest.
In order to invite others to have an impact through their work, Ovio curated a collection of social impact projects for you to contribute to.
Here is a list of those projects that you can immediately help and impact lives with your work.
Open Machine Learning
This repository belongs to OpenML, which is an online machine learning platform for sharing and organizing data, machine learning algorithms and experiments.
As machine learning is enhancing our ability to understand nature and build a better future, it is crucial that we make it transparent and easily accessible to everyone in research, education and industry.
Technologies: CSS, PHP, JavaScript
You can see a list of open issues, which are also labeled as hacktoberfest here.
AutoFocus
This repository is a project that uses data science and technology to address an important problem.
This project uses deep learning computer vision to label images taken by motion-activated "camera traps" according to the animals they contain. Accurate models for this labeling task can address a major bottleneck for wildlife conservation efforts.
Technology: Jupyter Notebook
You can see a list of open issues here in which you can immediately contribute to.
Callisto
This repository contains the source code of Callisto, which is an online reporting system for sexual assault.
By survivors, for survivors. Callisto is a non-profit that creates technology to detect repeat perpetrators of professional sexual coercion and sexual assault.
Technology: Python
Here is a list of open issues that you can contribute to.
Oppia
Oppia intends to provide students with quality Education by offering free, high-quality lessons with the help of educators from around the world.
By creating a set of free, high-quality, demonstrably effective lessons with the help of educators from around the world, Oppia aims to provide students with quality education – regardless of where they are or what traditional resources they have access to. Oppia’s mission is to help anyone learn anything they want in an effective and enjoyable way.
It has many open issues that you can start to contribute to.
Technologies: Python, TypeScript, HTML
You can see a list of many open issues, which are also labeled as hacktoberfest here.
Open Street Map iD
This repository belongs to the OpenStreetMap editor in JavaScript.
Technologies: JavaScript, CSS
- It’s intentionally simple. It lets you do the most basic tasks while not breaking other people’s data.
- It supports all popular modern desktop browsers: Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Edge, and IE11.
- iD is not yet designed for mobile browsers, but this is something we hope to add!
- Data is rendered with d3.js.
It has many open issues that you can contribute to which you can see here.
SignDict
This repository belongs to the project SignDict, which is an open sign language dictionary, in which you can contribute to its source code, or to the dictionary itself by adding a sign that is missing.
SignDict believes that communication is the key to an open society. To increase the integration of deaf communities, we created a living dictionary and invite everyone to participate. Our mission: to help in understanding each other.
Technologies: Elixir, HTML, Vue
It has many open issues, many of which are labeled hacktoberfest that you can contribute to which you can see here.
Operation Code
This repository is the front-end of the application OperationCode.
Technologies: JavaScript, CSS
We at Operation Code strive to provide an efficient way into a tech career for veterans and their families. We work directly with Senators, Congressmen, and Congresswomen to allow veterans total control of their future by permitting the use of the GI Bill on coding bootcamps. We’re the largest community dedicated to helping military veterans and families launch software development careers.
This project also has many open issues, many of which have the label hacktoberfest which you can see here.
Operation Code Resources
This is the repository of the Operation Code API for learning resources related to programming and cybersecurity.
Technology: Python
Here is a list of many open issues that you can immediately contribute to.
Operation Code Pybot
This repository represents Operation Code’s Official Slackbot.
Technology: Python
Here is a list of many open issues that you can immediately contribute to.
HOTOSM Website
This repository is the website of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.
HOT is an international team dedicated to humanitarian action and community development through open mapping. We provide map data to revolutionizes disaster management, reduces risks, and contributes to achievement of the SDGs. HOT enables communities, NGOs, international organizations, and government partners to use and contribute to OpenStreetMap for locally-relevant challenges through provision of training, equipment, knowledge exchange, and field projects.
Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript
Here is a of list open issues labeled as hacktoberfest that you can contribute to.
Open Food Network
This repository is about the project Open Food Network, which connects suppliers, distributors, and consumers to trade local produce.
The Open Food Network is the flagship project of the Open Food Foundation to develop, accumulate and protect open source knowledge, code, applications and platforms for fair and sustainable food systems.
Here is a of list open issues labeled as hacktoberfest that you can contribute to.
Open Food Facts Server
This repository belongs to the Open Food Facts product database, which is a food product database made by everyone, for everyone.
Open Food Facts is a database of food products with ingredients, allergens, nutrition facts and all the tidbits of information we can find on product labels.
Open Food Facts is a non-profit association of volunteers. 25.000+ contributors like you have added 868.000+ products from 150 countries using our Android, iPhone or Windows Phone app or their camera to scan barcodes and upload pictures of products and their labels.
Technologies: HTML, Perl
This project has many open issues that you can find here.
Open Food Facts iOS
This repository represents the native version of Open Food Facts for iOS, written in Swift.
Technology: Swift
Here is a list of many open issues that you can immediately contribute to.
Open Food Facts Android
This repository represents the native version of Open Food Facts for Android, written in Java.
Technology: Java
Here is a list of many open issues that you can immediately contribute to.
Diaper
This repository belongs to Diaperbase, which is an inventory system for diaper banks.
This application is an inventory management system that is built to address the needs of Diaper Banks as directly and explicitly as possible. Diaper Banks maintain inventory, receive donations and other means of intaking diapers (and related supplies), and issue Distributions to community partner organizations. Like any non-profit, they also need to perform reports on this data, and have day-to-day operational information they need as well. This application aims to serve all those needs, as well as facilitate, wherever possible the general operations of the Diaper Bank themselves (eg. through using barcode readers, scale weighing, inventory audits).
Technologies: Ruby, HTML, CSS, JavaScript
Here is a list of many open issues labeled as hacktoberfest that you can immediately contribute to.
If-Me
This repository is the open-source app intended to be used for sharing health experiences with loved ones.
if-me is a community for mental health experiences that encourages people to share their personal stories with trusted allies. Dealing with mental health is what makes us human. But for a lot of us, it’s a struggle to be open about it.
Technologies: Ruby, JavaScript, HTML, CSS
Here is a of list open issues labeled as hacktoberfest that you can contribute to.
Terrastories
This repository belongs to the application built to enable local communities to locate and map their own oral storytelling traditions about places of significant meaning or value to them.
Powered by the Mapbox platform, Terrastories is designed to be entirely offline-compatible, so that remote communities can access the application entirely without needing internet connectivity.
Technologies: Ruby JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Dockerfile
Here is a list of open issues labeled as hacktoberfest that you can contribute to.
All Ready
This repository is the source code of AllReady.
AllReady is an open-source solution focused on increasing awareness, efficiency and impact of preparedness campaigns as they are delivered by humanitarian and disaster response organizations in local communities.
Technologies: C#, HTML
Here is a list of open issues labeled as hacktoberfest that you can contribute to.
Talk
This GitHub repository represents the app Talk, which offers a better commenting experience for journalists.
Online comments are broken. Our open-source commenting platform, Coral, rethinks how moderation, comment display, and conversation function, creating the opportunity for safer, smarter discussions around your work.
Here is a list of open issues labeled as hacktoberfest that you can contribute to.
Ushaidi
Ushahidi is an Open Source web application for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping.
We are a social enterprise that provides software and services to numerous sectors and civil society to help improve the bottom up flow of information. Ushahidi, which translates to "testimony" in Swahili, was developed to map reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election violence in 2008. We believe that if marginalized people are able to easily communicate to those who aim to serve them. Ushahidi helps you to collect info from: SMS, Twitter, RSS feeds, Email. It helps you to process that information, categorize it, geo-locate it and publish it on a map.
Technologies: JavaScript, HTML
Here is a list of open pull requests labeled that you can review.
This was a long list that should hopefully provide a variety of projects that you can choose from to help.
You do not have to be a Python expert, or master a particular framework to make an impact through these repositories. You can even help by inviting others to contribute to them too.
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