orph4nus

TLDR: Where to find organizations/companies that recruit hackers (as volunteers or payed employees), to develop products (hardware/software) to help others around the world or the local community where it is based?

I became a nomad last Christmas, in order to be able to explore more. Such that there is a better balance between my time where I discover new, while working and studying. This turned out to be great, and after 6 months I'm very happy how it all turned out and has evolved so far.

So enough about that. My educational background is a cross between electrical engineering, artistic education, game development and general computer science. Most of it is learned on my own, and I continue to learn alone or within an (online) community.

I always wanted to help other people, but never really have done so, beyond some local stuff. In the last months I did start doing volunteering, but I never could use my hacker skills (Hardware + (mostly) Software) while doing so.

This website/community often gives me great ideas because of articles shared or questions asked by other people. Therefore I would like to ask a question of my own:

Are there any specific websites/communities where I can find more information about organizations and companies that recruit "hackers" to help them, help others. Could be both on a volunteering, freelance or permanent basis. I'm also location independent, so it could be pretty much anywhere on this planet.

As a (for now) lonely programmer, I have too little experience on UX / UI / Web design to design the UserInterface and all the menu's for the Trixel Editor.

You can find the current minor (really barebone) version of the Trixel editor here: https://glendc.github.io/trixel/. It is the first step towards an MVP.

A good Trixel-UI should (I think):

* Be minimisalist, yet give the trixel editor the style and charm it deserves

* Be intuitive (extending that goal of the editor)

* Be prepared for feature-growth. Tools & features will be added, and the UI should be designed and ready for those changes

This won't be a relationship where I just tell you this and than expect you to deliver me an awesome design. I will help you completely with this. I would try it myself, but my poor choice of colors and lack of design skills make it quite hard. I would love to have you as my partner and make this editor truly intuitive.

I would really like to underline the fact that you would be just as much worth in the team as me. The project is also still very early-stage as I only started developing less then 2 weeks ago. Most roads are still open for discussion.

I do have some idea's already regarding the UI and menu's, and I will keep working on idea's. But The sooner I have someone on my side to collaborate with this, the better.

As the application is completely in the browser it is quite essential that you know how to get great design within a web environment. Having the skills to implement these designs yourself is not required and I can (and probably will in a lot of cases) take on that entire side for you.

Having you on my team would really boost this project that I am spending so much of my free time on. I'm quite passionate about bringing this project to the state it deserves and I hope so are you.

I have this question also as a mirror within an issue of my GitHub repository: https://github.com/GlenDC/trixel/issues/48