javascript | Open Source Design

Helpful ways for web sites to warn users who are vulnerable to third-party tracking

Aloodo — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 15:48:13 +0000

Organization: Aloodo

Status: expired

Compensation: paid

Role: Information design

How to Apply:

Don Marti
Example of a really basic action: swap out the page header for a message: https://blog.zgp.org/code/warn3p.js Project blog: http://blog.aloodo.org/ Project on GitHub: https://github.com/aloodo

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design a simple way to show an Facebook user their own "information diet"

facebook.tracking.exposed (fbtrex) — Sun, 15 Oct 2017 10:00:42 +0000

Organization: facebook.tracking.exposed (fbtrex)

Status: filled

Compensation: gratis

Role: UX design and data reduction

fbtrex wants show to a facebook user about how the social media informs them.

I need the help of a javascript developer able to represent UCG data and a lot of metadata with sense and means.

How to Apply:

claudio@tracking.exposed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ct9d-o7NrSg

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Design a new theme for Discourse

Discourse — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 11:46:18 +0000

Organization: Discourse

Status: filled

Compensation: paid

Role: Web design

About Outreachy

Participants of Outreachy work with an open source organization (in our case Discourse) on a 3 month programming project. It’s similar to events like Google Summer of Code, however the aim of Outreachy is to provide a collaborative environment in which newcomers from underrepresented backgrounds get an opportunity to learn from and contribute to FOSS by doing paid, full-time work.

Participation is open internationally to all women (cis and trans), trans men, and genderqueer people. Additionally, it’s open to residents and nationals of the United States of any gender who are Black/African American, Hispanic/Latino, American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander.

Source: https://www.outreachy.org/

Furthermore, unlike GSoC, Outreachy is open to all ages, not just students.

About Discourse

Discourse is an open source forum platform: “Civilized discussion for your community”. For a more in-depth description, see our about page.

How to Apply:

Erlend Sogge Heggen (Community Advocate) - erlend@discourse.org
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/wiki/Outreachy

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Kiwi IRC web client design

Kiwi IRC — Sat, 05 Aug 2017 12:06:38 +0000

Organization: Kiwi IRC

Status: filled

Compensation: gratis

Role: UI/UX design

Kiwi IRC is a modern web IRC client built with Node.js and Vue.

The new incarnation of Kiwi IRC is starting to be pretty solid: https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient

The lead developer Darren aka prawnsalad could use a hand with the interface presentation and layout.

I believe with this modern web client approach we can get rid of the image of IRC as a clunky and opaque interaction tool. Having the power of server-side makes all sorts of magical things possible (storage, data processing etc.). The ideal would be to GUIfy everything, so the non-techy user will not have to face any frightening /commands. I guess the hardest will be inventing a GUI for even the ChanServ commands like setting various flags for channels.

Perhaps the first step would be conducting a competitive analysis of new and emerging chat platforms.

Listing open source ones:

Here is a quick route to Kiwi IRC’s channel using the WIP new client: https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/#irc://irc.freenode.net/kiwiirc

The submitter of this job posting uses the nickname buovjaga.

How to Apply:

Darren Whitlen (lead developer): https://github.com/prawnsalad
Source code repository: https://github.com/kiwiirc/kiwiirc

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The best Node JS MVC framework, CrocodileJS

crocodilejs — Mon, 10 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Organization: crocodilejs

Status: filled

Compensation: gratis

Role: Logo Designer

CrocodileJS Node JS MVC Framework Logo

Instead of using the 🐊 emoji, we’d love to have an actual logo.

You can read more about the project here:

https://github.com/crocodilejs/crocodile-node-mvc-framework

We’re very focused on designers too - we just published these two packages which allow icons and images to EASILY be embedded in emails to customers.

The website will be online at https://crocodilejs.com soon!

How to Apply:

Contact niftylettuce@gmail.com

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Voluntary Basic Income Through Group Income

okTurtles Foundation — Mon, 10 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Organization: okTurtles Foundation

Status: closed

Compensation: paid, fulltime, negotiated

Role: Lead Frontend Developer

This is a copy of our official listing. Please see that for most up-to-date info!

Lead Frontend Developer

Want to work on basic income with us?

This is an opportunity to:

Make basic income a reality for potentially millions of people.
Impact how the world’s economy works and the way groups and communities interact.
Use the latest technologies in decentralized application design.

You’ll work with a team of experts to finish the prototype of Group Income that will be used by real groups during our trial phrase.

Requirements

You’re a “designer” in the Apple sense. While you might not know much Photoshop, you do know how to make solid, user-friendly, secure applications.
JavaScript, HTML, CSS expert.
Expert in at least 1 other programming language.
Fully grok git, and have made meaningful contributions to open source projects (your own or others).
Fully grok decentralization, or are excited to learn.
Strong understanding of frontend security concepts. You know what to do. You know what not to do. And you certainly know the difference between asymmetric and symmetric encryption.
Able to competently use GPG and other secure communications tools.
Autodidact.
Fluent in English.
Are reliable; you don’t make commitments you won’t keep.

Nice To Have

Knowledge of Vue.js, the framework we’re using.

Compensation

Negotiated hourly rate, based on experience.

Perk: Membership in the Group Income Developers Group

After receiving the position and making at least one successful pull request, you’ll be granted membership in a Group Income Group (GIG) that’s specially purposed for Group Income contributors and is sustained by voluntary contributions from other GIGs. Members retain membership for one year after their most recent contribution, unless voted out (“disowned”) by the existing members. Any funds you receive from this group are entirely separate and unrelated to any compensation you receive for contract work.

This Lead Frontend Developer will be eligible for one of the five lifetime “founders seats” in the developer GIG. The lifetime seats will go to the top 5 contributors to Group Income once it reaches its 1.0 public debut (the major release that comes after the prototype).

We’ll post additional details about this special developer GIG to our blog.

Directions

To apply, email hi [at] okturtles.com the following:

Description of your technical background, why you are applying for this position, and why we should choose you.
Links to the source code of at least two software projects that you’re most proud of (at least one of which must be in JavaScript).
In your own words, what the difference between asymmetric and symmetric encryption is.
- Bonus: send an encrypted email. Fingerprint: 0xC32DE6664644751C9B80D9984B4D4371A884B988

Finally, we recommend (but don’t require) sending a DM to @Group_Income with the subject of your email to make sure it doesn’t get lost due to spam filters.

Volunteer

Most of the people who work on Group Income do so as volunteers. If you’d like to join our volunteer team, get in touch with us. We’re looking for designers, developers, and writers.

Whether you’re a contractor or volunteer, every regular contributor to the development of Group Income will be added to the developer GIG mentioned above.

About okTurtles Foundation

okTurtles Foundation is a registered Florida non-profit. Our research, education, and development efforts go to supporting beneficial decentralization technologies. Our work has been covered in TechCrunch, VICE, Engadget, and elsewhere on the web.

How to Apply:

Email hi@okturtles.com with your technical background, why you are applying, and links to at least two software projects (one in JavaScript).

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Frontend Developer / Designer (f/m)

Jolocom — Wed, 25 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Organization: Jolocom

Status: filled

Compensation: part-time / 18hrs/week

Role: Frontend Developer / Designer

FRONTEND DEVELOPER / DESIGNER (F/M)

Whether you want to work in Berlin or remotely, both is genuine to us; we have summits where we all come together for a couple of days on a regular basis. We are all about empowering users and bringing their data home. Of course design and UI play a super important role in giving the user an awesome and seamless experience. On the backend we use linked data and blockchain technology. Even if you are not familiar with those and you never heard about decentralization… you will love it soon! Why? – These technologies support you as a fronted developer/designer to do the impossible. Curious?

Below you see a list of tools and technical and personal skills that accompany our work. But foremost we are looking for passion and tenacity over experience. Are you a curious person and love to learn? Are you open to new ideas and know how to communicate clearly and with empathy? You love to work in an international team?

Tools:

Any UI software would do, but it’s usually a mix of: Sketch, PS, AI, ID
Some prototyping software/service could come in handy too, like UXPin

Tech skills:

Skilled in JavaScript (even without jQuery)
Knowledge of at least one major JS framework: React, Ember, Aurelia, Backbone, Angular, Vue, etc
D3sj is a plus
Experience with CSS concepts: BEM, OOCSS, etc; good understanding of how specificity works
Experience with pre-processors, either SASS or LESS would do
Some experience with task runners Grunt/Gulp (minification, auto-prefixing)
Some knowledge of flexbox

Personal skills:

Ability to fast prototype layouts & interactions
Ability to discuss design issues in depth; problem solver
A good sense (or eye) for design (see portfolio), relates more to the stylistic side rather than functional
Patient and ready to start over

You like the vibes? Tell us about you. We are looking forward to meeting you!

How to Apply:

Contact joachim@jolocom.com

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Data-Driven Project

OKFN — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Organization: OKFN

Status: closed

Compensation: competitive

Role: Front-end Developer and UX Designer

Frontend Developer and UX Designer for Data-Driven Project

What: working on cutting edge data-driven, high-impact open knowledge projects related to public finances and healthcare with a world-leading non-profit.

Designing and implementing a new user experience around clinical trials data to present complex information to patients and healthcare professionals in a simple way. More than 10,000 people a year die each year in the UK alone from adverse effects to prescribed medications. This project is part of an ongoing effort

Skills and experience wanted

[Essential] Experience designing compelling web-based user experiences presenting information to non-expert users [Essential] Excellent knowledge of HTML, CSS and frontend javascript [Essential] Familiarity and opinions on one or more frontend development frameworks (but paired with flexibility and a lack of dogmatism) [Essential] Good experience with version control tools preferably git and github Desirable Experience in visualization a real plus [Desirable] Agile, sprint-oriented development process Familiarity with free/open-source software and its processes (bonus points if you have run or contributed to an f/oss project) General

With 3-4h timezone of London (we’d love to be more flexible but in our experience it is hard to work effectively with someone further afield) Prior experience working effectively with remote teams You can take the initiative and relish challenge and the ability to work in a self-directed manner in harmony with a broader team Form of Engagement

Likely length of the engagement: at least 6m close to full-time Start date: it can vary but we would Form of engagement: this will be a contracting role Test: give them some data from e.g. http://wiki.okfn.org/Get_The_Data_Challenge or github.com/datasets and ask them to mock a small website presenting it.

How to Apply:

See the GitHub repository (okfn) or description below

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