Remember SETI@home (https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/) or Folding@home (http://folding.stanford.edu/)? Where the idea was, there's millions and millions of computers out there which are currently using 1% of their capacity?
I feel like I'm one of the millions and millions who is just bored right now, and I'm eager to help anyone with pretty much anything that can be done over the internet. But there's no framework for donating my "spare cycles".
@audiodude Interesting thought. The closest thing I can think of would be doing small open source tasks, like on GitHub. There would be stuff from translating to coding but I'd bet there's stuff regarding audio too. In the end all of them require some work to even understand what they want, so it's not just like giving cycles.
@audiodude Okay that might be a problem. I only once did a random PR and luckily they merged it.
Technically I'd think searching for labels could work. Like 'need help' or 'good first issue' but there's no standard.
Other possible resources are:
https://www.firsttimersonly.com/
Where they mention http://up-for-grabs.net/
Ah and here is a list with per-project standard label for smaller issues https://github.com/MunGell/awesome-for-beginners/blob/master/README.md
@audiodude
I do a lot of random PRs mostly correcting readme docs. Just little things like spelling mistakes, especially on newly trending repos. It's kind of relaxing
@0x11de784a
@0x11de784a I think the percentage of projects on GitHub that are actually capable of accepting and merging PRs is quite low. How do you find the smaller percentage that would accept a "drive by" contribution? I would be up for it though if I knew where to look.