Is there some project that the opensource world is missing that you think it needs?

  • yourFanatic@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    Another good email client. Many are trying to leave Thunderbird on GNU Linux but there aren’t many to choose from.

  • cantankerous_cashew@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    A self-hosted photo/video viewer which presents itself as an Open Directory that maps closely to the underlying file system and also includes the ability to view images and stream videos. If videos are too large/incompatible with the user’s browser, they should be transcoded on the fly (optionally with the gpu). Genuinely surprised something like this doesn’t exist

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      6 days ago

      lists niche-specific list of requirements Genuinely surprised this doesn’t exist.

      Most of what you want already exist in tons of simple php scripts that will take a directory and present each directory as a gallery. The live transcoding thing is something you can always add, because ya know, the majority of servers do not have GPUs.

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        10 days ago

        Only Android Open Source Project, not the different phone UIs, vendor blobs, firmware, camera apps, etc… It is really the basics that are open source.

        But also the source of android is 100% controlled by google unless it is an alternative forked project like lineageOS (at least I think so)

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    10 days ago

    A mesh network internet, it’s more of a hardware, security, and adoption problem but at this point there’s enough wifi overlap in most residential areas that entire towns could have their own local internet without needing the ISP model at all.

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    10 days ago

    I would really like to see something like Jellyfin/Komga but for sheet music. There’s a software in early development called Sheetable that stores it in PDF format, but I really want to see something that has MusicXML support so that sheets can be played back.

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      6 days ago

      Hi! My partner is a middle school band teacher. I have been trying to find anything that is music related for her so I can help her classroom workflow.

      Any recommendations? Because I honestly can’t find anything good. I will check out Sheetable soon.

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        6 days ago

        Sadly, neither have I- in the closed source world there’s stuff like Soundslice which is pretty good but nothing really open source

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    9 days ago

    Most anything related to healthcare:

    • System for medics and nurses to input all the data of a patient, which can be accessed by said patient if need be
    • System for keeping track of vaccines applied and pinging people who need to take more shots (second dose, reinforcement dose, etc)
    • drivers and programs to interact with medical equipment
    • Pup Biru@aussie.zone
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      9 days ago

      there’s actually a bunch of these, but healthcare tends to fall prey to “too much money, too many consultants, fancy brochures”

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        9 days ago

        Gonna take a look at that one. Data migration from a 10+ years program would definitely be the second biggest pain, number one would be training staff to use it, but i do think it’d be worth it

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          9 days ago

          Main problem with it is lack of certification, which prevents it’s use ironically in Germany, the country of origin. I would have loved to use it. If you live in a less–regulated health system, I wish you success!

          Data migration will be a huge problem – medical management system companies tend to lock their customers into their system by preventing data migration.

          I just didn’t bother with migration. I used an autohotkey script to print all patient charts of the old system into pdf files – unconvenient but failsave – and built the new data base from scratch.

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            7 days ago

            In my case, it’d be an actual epic job, since I work for govt and we use an old version of TrakCare, which has been the source of a number of headaches for at least 7 years now

            I’m curious, which certifications does it lack such that Germany can’t use GNUMed?

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              7 days ago

              TrakCare – wow, intersystem offers a bunch of data management software in > 20 countries.

              At first glance, TrakCare seems to be targeted at hospitals. GNUmed is targeted at small practices.

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              7 days ago

              Billing the public health insurance. It’s perfectly usable for private practice, but there are only very few private only practices in Germany.

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    10 days ago

    A manga chapter/volume manager similar to sonarr/radarr/readarr that can download with or similar to fmd2/hdoujin downloader/mihon

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    8 days ago

    Open source language learning only has Anki. Everything else is in an enbryonic stage.

    There are so many low hanging fruits. Add-on to look up words in subtitles and add it to Anki. Luo dingo clone that’s a bit less tedious (without having to write so much of your native language). Clozemaster clone (unless someone knows how to set up Anki to do this)

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      6 days ago

      I think Memento is open source. It’s good for subtitles->Anki cards.

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        6 days ago

        That’s a good one, but it’s only for Japanese.

        Of course, you can’t easily extend that to other languages unless you have conjugation/declension tables. When I want to learn a word I need to be adding the base form to Anki, not the actual word said

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      7 days ago

      See I just started getting into learning another language and like most people I just downloaded Duolingo. But now on YouTube everybody recommends Anki. Over anything else I mean also immersion but like Anki is the go-to so I think Open source won

    • Hazematman@lemmy.ca
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      7 days ago

      100% agree, would like to see more stuff in this space. Do you have any links to more “enbryonic tools”. I recall seeing another tool awhile ago that I tested (can’t remember the name) that worked a bit like LingQ. It would run a webserver and you could read links through it and mark words you didn’t understand. I couldn’t really get into a flow using it as tool to learn languages.

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        7 days ago

        You’re talking about learning with texts

        It’s not great for languages like Korean where you might have a lot of different conjugations that will be detected as new words

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    9 days ago

    I’m always surprised that, for as widely used as PDFs are, there doesn’t seem to be any real alternative to Acrobat for editing existing PDFs.

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      6 days ago

      Yeah, as a past tax accountant, I wouldn’t count on it.

      Because not only would you need to be updating tax regulation every year (which is completely unpredictable with new laws and interpretations) you would also need to update it for every country and state/providence.

      No one should do that for free.

    • 0101100101@programming.devOP
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      9 days ago

      I considered an accounting SaaS once. Only once though. The amount of constantly changing regulations would make it a very high maintenance project.

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    10 days ago

    It you’re looking for ideas-- Something you’re passionate about. Find a problem you’re having, fix it, and make it open source. That’s the best way to make sure whatever you do doesn’t get abandoned. Good luck

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      8 days ago

      Sometimes you get into skill issue, or time issues. I make some softwares that I need, but I don’t have advertising skills to make people use it.

      And sometimes I want to make something, but I don’t have the necessary skills.

      For example I’d like a local filesharing option. Where a single folder would be synced in my phone from home computer when I’m at home, and from work computer and phone when I’m at work. Without using cloud sync between them only when I’m physically traveling between them, that’s good enough for most use cases of cloud sync that I want for work.

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    9 days ago

    for me the most critical ones are replacements for discord and microsoft teams. for discord the critical piece is the login - people don’t want to make accounts on each server, so until we have proper federation with a good user experience people won’t actually move off it.

    for teams i’m sure theres projects in development, i just don’t know them or their status - all i know is that i want a project to combine several specialized FOSS services (jitsi is great, and there’s lots of other collaboration tools for email/calendar/chat) into one nice unified frontend that is actually reasonably easy to self-host and maintain.

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    10 days ago

    I have no clue yet if an open source solution exists, but I’m just getting started volunteering with a local animal rescue, and they definitely need a better solution for records management.