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** For 0.3, follow a 2 + 1 pattern: either 2 external and 1 internal, or 2 internal and 1 external.
** For 0.4, follow a 1 + 2 pattern: do the opposite of what you did in 0.3
** Consider working on a project you began working with during Hacktoberfest, though you aren't limited to this.
** PRs for 0.3 and 0.4 are about increasing quality vs quantity. You need to work on larger fixes/features than many of you did for Hacktoberfest. If you want to work on small bugs, you'll need to combine them together.
** Do any students already have open source projects others could join?
** What are some projects we should consider starting together?
** List of brainstormed internal projects:
*** (NEW) DarkChatter - decentralized direct networking/messaging over low-level WiFi packets (10 ✔️)
*** (NEW) Text-to-speech coding for HTML templating - code with your voice, plugin for VSCode or similar (10 ✔️)
*** (NEW) Resume/Portfolio generator: simple static site generation for non-technical students (9 ✔️)
*** (EXISTING) Node.js/React chat project; ideally standalone and published on npm (9 ✔️)
*** (NEW) Browser Extension to control how Blackboard looks and feels using GreaseMonkey. Fix student issues in the UI (8 ✔️)
*** (NEW) RSS bot for when wiki's are updated (7 ✔️)
*** (EXISTING) App to aggregate and download starred GitHub projects (7 ✔️)
*** (NEW) Open Source Dwarf Fortress clone: ASCII style game (7 ✔️)
*** (NEW) Browser extension for remembering where you left off & resume YouTube videos (7 ✔️)
*** (NEW) YouTube bulk downloader using youtube-dl (provide a list of links to videos to download) (6 ✔️)
*** (EXISTING) Unity side-scrolling video game in C# (6 ✔️)
*** (NEW) Turn-based creative writing app for friends to write fiction together in a fun way (web/texting interfaces) (6 ✔️)
*** (NEW) Web bot detector/blocker (4 ✔️)
*** (EXISTING) Cross platform command-line utility for searching Amazon, Google, StackOverflow etc in your browser (2 ✔️)
*** (NEW) Test wrapper script for running tests from different frameworks (1 ✔️)
*** (EXISTING) My Little Pony search GUI for data and analytics of existing, large fan fiction database; built with Java Swing (1 ✔️)
*** (NEW) Text diff tool for dealing with non line-based changes (1 ✔️)
* Open Source Case Study: Redis
