Some EA-ish OSS projects that are under consideration for the EA Hackathon. We are planning to pick a small number of these and produce a curated list of issues that would be good for first time contributors.

Feel free to add other suggestions! We are trying to optimise for projects that have well described, triaged issues, with as low an onboarding time as possible (and obviously they need to have some kind of impact).

• Manifold
  • Primarily in Typescript
  • Issues need triaging and labelling
  • Has contrib guidelines
  • Lots of Manifold-related projects too
    • https://github.com/manifoldmarkets/market-maker - TS
    • https://github.com/bcongdon/PyManifold - Python
    • https://github.com/jonnyspicer/mango (shameless plug) - Go
• ForumMagnum
  • Typescript
  • Can only setup LW version locally, need creds for EA Forum
  • Have plenty of issues
  • Have confirmed with devs that they accept contributions
• Squiggle
  • Typescript
  • Has contrib guidelines
  • Issues are triaged and labelled
• Metaforecast
  • Typescript
  • No contrib guidelines but seems like there is plenty of work to be done
  • No triaged issues but there is a “todo” list
• Our World in Data
  • OWID grapher
    • TS
    • Contrib guidelines
    • Triaged issues
• EleutherAI
  • Not clear what projects are currently accepting contributions, but would be easy to ask in the Discord
  • https://discord.gg/zBGx3azzUn
• Polis
  • JS/TS
  • Contrib guidelines pending
  • Triaged issues
• Vegan Hacktivists
  • https://github.com/veganhacktivists
  • Have spoken to them and said they are happy to open source two projects:
    • https://activisthub.org/
    • https://veganbootcamp.org/
    • Both in PHP with Laravel
  • Will also be triaged issues taken from their currently private interal list
• Ought
  • https://github.com/oughtinc
  • ICE seems to be welcoming contributions
    • Python
• Stampy
  • Explicitly welcoming contributions
  • Python/TS
  • Has triaged issues
  • https://discord.gg/7wjJbFJnSN
• EigenTrustNetwork
  • https://github.com/eigentrustnetwork
  • https://discord.gg/hB79AF7kxZ
• Zac Hatfield-Dodds’ list of issues specifically suited for an EA Hackathon:
  • https://gist.github.com/Zac-HD/b1d1fc2cf424f432d611da7a162fc039
• https://aisafetyideas.com/
• https://www.super-linear.org/
  • https://discord.gg/32gmgqebFu
• Forum post soliciting ideas for the EAGxBerkeley Hackathon
• Plex said alignment transcription service might be good