Got Hacking? Git Hacking.

I would like to suggest that folks consider working on git itself. The git mailing list is very friendly and supportive and you will be making a valuable contribution to the git community. You'll also have an opportunity to brush up your C skills with guidance from some excellent C hackers.<p>If you aren't a C coder, you can help to improve the documentation (really, just pick a man page, there are many that can use improving). Or, look at it as an opportunity to learn C -- some parts of git are quite advanced, but there's also lots of areas that are easy to work on.<p>See the git wiki for some areas that can use love:<p><a href="https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Janitor" rel="nofollow">https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Janitor</a><p><a href="https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ToDo" rel="nofollow">https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ToDo</a><p><a href="https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Wishlist" rel="nofollow">https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Wishlist</a><p>(Sadly the wiki is down right now, so please paste those links into google and click the cached link.)<p>So go on, get yourself listed on <a href="http://git-scm.com/about" rel="nofollow">http://git-scm.com/about</a><p>:)

This seems like a cool idea. You might want to check with a lawyer about the logo up top though, thats definitely GitHub's octocat hiding behind Apple's Terminal.app logo.

Congrats for a great startup weekend.<p>I love the idea. A couple of months ago I created gistcube[1], It was a weekend project to learn a bit about Mongodb and Sinatra. Gistcube is a way to discover interesting gist in github. You can vote up, add to favorites, tag gists, and alos sign up to interesting/tags gist using rss.<p>[1] <a href="http://gistcube.com" rel="nofollow">http://gistcube.com</a>

I really hate the global web proxy at my university (RWTH Aachen).<p><pre><code> (1, MALWARE, Phishing, Domain has unusually high traffic volume for a very recent registration. Identified as a phishing or spam-related site., BLOCK-MALWARE, 0x0b216460, 1296449561.941, QAAAAQAAAAAAAAAAG/8ACP8AAAD/AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA=, http://githacking.com/)</code></pre>

I like the business model, but what prevents someone from looking at a developer's solution and incorporating it without paying the developer? Say the company is charged when they use the patching mechanism to bring developer's work into their product. What would stop them from simply going around this mechanism and just copy and paste the solution into their own repository?<p>Also is the developer responsible for fixing bugs in their solution? Can a developer exploit the process by submitting buggy code they'll be paid extra to fix? Can a developer be required to fix bugs in their solution?<p>If a company can't inspect code before they pay they can't be certain it's relatively bug free, if they can inspect the code they could use it without paying for it easily.

I actually spent a longer moment looking for signup form, then I started to think what to input there (email, login, or what).

Great idea!<p>Where is my e-mail going? What are you planning to do with it?<p>Also, there is no identification on who is running the project.

that page is purdy but it really should explain what it's about. what's the plan. all i can tell is that it involves Git and they want an email. to be more specific: what is it beyond what we already have today with something like GitHub?

Not really sure what this is/does. Can someone summarize? Is it search/social thing built on github?

This is awesome! I hope this rolls out soon. Brings in more incentive to support open-source

This is neat, i intend to use it. I've been thinking recently it would be great if there was "OkCupid for code" and once you have enough data to predict good matches for people &#60;=&#62; projects you could do some interesting things.

We ended up winning 1st prize for Startup Weekend (we posted this in advance of the demo). Here's our presentation:<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1OhsAUMWbM" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1OhsAUMWbM</a>

Text is cut off on the right side of the boxes on iPhone. I love the idea though.

Awesome