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Re:Germany offers up to €30k for 6 months of working on OSS by nl on Monday August 01, 2016 @12:08PM (#12203521)
I've got 5 or 6 projects that would be at least somewhere on the road towards a viable MVP. I think a lot of programmers are have things in a similar state.

Without looking at old source repos, some of the things I have laying around include:

-- A website classifier: classifies websites against a fixed taxonomy. Roughly as good as AlchemyAPI

-- A English-Language questions answering system. It can answer plain (written) English questions against a knowledge graph. I also have code for a non-Knowledge Based approach (from a Kaggle competition)

-- A somewhat complete Docker based Minecraft server admin tool

I'm sure I could find some other projects kicking around too.

These are all thing I've written as a working programmer in my spare time, while supporting a family. Yes, I'm a white Anglo-Saxon male, and I'm aware that puts me in a somewhat privileged position but I'm not sure the privilege argument makes total sense here.

I do this for fun, not really expecting to see a return. There are plenty of less privileged people who do similar.

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