I mean projects that just started recently and are not so popular.<p>I am working on a flexible discussion platform for open-source projects. If you are interested, could you please drop me a few lines at vladimir@tagmask.com
I released kivaloo just recently.<p>As far as I'm aware, it currently has zero users (Tarsnap isn't using it yet), which probably qualifies it as "not so popular".
I see a lot of node.js work here... I'll be the super-uncool guy in the group and admit that so far I've only ever released Java libraries under Apache 2.<p>I just released a CloudFront log parsing library:
<a href="http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/software/cloudfront-log-parser/" rel="nofollow">http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/software/cloudfront-log-parser/</a><p>and a simple XML parsing library (speed of pull-parsing with the ease of XPath-esque expressions):
<a href="http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/software/simple-java-xml-parser-sjxp/" rel="nofollow">http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/software/simple-java-xml-parser-...</a><p>and one library that seems to be picking up is an image-scaling library I have made a few releases of:
<a href="http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/software/imgscalr-java-image-scaling-library/" rel="nofollow">http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/software/imgscalr-java-image-sca...</a><p>There are a handful of other libraries:
<a href="https://github.com/thebuzzmedia/" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/thebuzzmedia/</a><p>I just haven't finished the project-pages for them.
PGfb is an extremely nascent project (only one day of work), that started at a hack-a-thon at Berkeley.<p>Aim is to bring PGP encryption to facebook using browser extensions.<p><a href="https://github.com/m0hit/PGfb" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/m0hit/PGfb</a>
This is my first open source project...
It's an open source "LaunchRock"-type site:
<a href="https://github.com/JamesChevalier/Launch-Soon" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/JamesChevalier/Launch-Soon</a>
I wrote a program called daemon-manager to scratch an itch of mine (<a href="http://porkrind.org/daemon-manager/" rel="nofollow">http://porkrind.org/daemon-manager/</a>). It lets you manage non-root daemons from your user directory without requiring root permissions to start and stop them. I've been dogfooding it for about 6 months and just can't live without it any more. I think other people would be interested in using it but I'm not very good at marketing.<p>I also co-wrote and maintain commit-patch (<a href="http://porkrind.org/commit-patch/" rel="nofollow">http://porkrind.org/commit-patch/</a>) and it's another that I can't imagine living without. I've been using it for about 8 years and it has slightly more recognition--but not much.
I created a universal framework template for iPhone/iOS (lets you build static frameworks that work on device and simulator): <a href="https://github.com/kstenerud/iOS-Universal-Framework" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/kstenerud/iOS-Universal-Framework</a><p>Also, a nicer interface to iPhone audio: <a href="https://github.com/kstenerud/ObjectAL-for-iPhone" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/kstenerud/ObjectAL-for-iPhone</a><p>I also put out my Objective-C programmer's toolbox: <a href="https://github.com/kstenerud/Objective-Gems" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/kstenerud/Objective-Gems</a>
Just wrote a small native Node.js extension for displaying desktop notifications: <a href="https://github.com/olalonde/node-notify" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/olalonde/node-notify</a><p>Tutorial available here: <a href="http://syskall.com/how-to-write-your-own-native-nodejs-extension" rel="nofollow">http://syskall.com/how-to-write-your-own-native-nodejs-exten...</a><p>Node.js has a lot of potential but is still pretty young.
I've recently started appengine-boilerplate, which makes setting up new appengine projects much quicker and more fun. Includes html5-boilerplate, openid-authentication, memcaching, etc. <a href="https://github.com/metachris/appengine-boilerplate" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/metachris/appengine-boilerplate</a><p>If anyone wants to help, authentication with OAuth and MailChimp integration would be great places to start :)
While I started it a while ago, Keryx for Ubuntu/Debian is pretty new to the Linux community and not near as popular as it could be. <a href="http://keryxproject.org" rel="nofollow">http://keryxproject.org</a><p>It's a GUI tool I built in Python to help offline users update and install new software on Linux.<p>I no longer have time to work on it and would love it if someone would like to take over maintaining it for me.
I recently started creating an SMTP server using Node.js: <a href="https://github.com/baudehlo/Haraka" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/baudehlo/Haraka</a>
We open-sourced our fullstack application server for node.js at NodeConf last week: haibu. <a href="http://github.com/nodejitsu/haibu" rel="nofollow">http://github.com/nodejitsu/haibu</a>.<p>The project had been internal for a year and as such is pretty mature technically, but has a nascent community. If you're thinking about running node.js in production definitely check it out!
Friend and I are currently working on an embeddable library for server-side javascript called CoreJS (<a href="http://github.com/frenzylabs/CoreJS" rel="nofollow">http://github.com/frenzylabs/CoreJS</a>). It's not to compete with node, as it's meant to be embedded. It's threadsafe, and is, optionally, async.
For no particular reason that I can think of I write modules relating to Chess on CPAN---probably not what you were thinking of, but it fits the description in that I've recently (last few weeks) updated/revised all of them. As to their popularity, well, this is chess, so what do you think? :)
I'm almost always starting new projects. One of my more recent undertakings is a client-side JavaScript implementation of a Hunspell-style spellchecker: <a href="http://github.com/cfinke/Typo.js" rel="nofollow">http://github.com/cfinke/Typo.js</a>
Mine is Ragios - Ruby based system monitoring framework: <a href="https://github.com/obi-a/Ragios" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/obi-a/Ragios</a><p>A good way to find recently started projects is to follow the keyword 'github' on twitter.
I am about to start a few small <canvas> game engines for my own use, chiefly a point-and-click adventure/puzzle game engine.<p>I probably won't start coding in earnest until July though.
I have created a write though cache for mongodb based on memcached. ( mongoid supported currently. ) <a href="http://bit.ly/mfdIN7" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/mfdIN7</a>