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Ask Slashdot: What Does the FOSS Community Currently Need?

Posted by samzenpus on from the lend-a-hand dept.

First time accepted submitter d33tah writes "In the summer term of my final year of IT's bachelor's course in my university, every student is obliged to develop his own project; the only requirement is that the application would use any kind of a database. While others are thinking of another useless system for an imaginary company that nobody would actually use, I'd rather hack up something the FL/OSS community actually needs. The problem is — how to figure out what it could be?"

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  1. The FSF has a page to answer this question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    High Priority Free Software Projects

  2. PostgreSQL todo list by leandrod · · Score: 4, Informative

    PostgreSQL has a wonderful wiki todo list. Just pick your task.

    My pet peeves are on domains, localisation, derived relations, and integrity constraints.

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  3. Re:Matching contributors to needs by BruceCage · · Score: 4, Informative

    It already exists: https://openhatch.org/

    I registered a while back but haven't really bother to use it.

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