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For some super-quick off-the-shelf solutions to common software desires, see the "I want to" page of Phil Bradley. It includes things like “Share photographs with other people”, “Set up an online calendar”, “do podcasts”, etc.

If what you want to do isn’t listed there, feel free to add it to the list here:

Software someone here at Oddwiki Software Bazaar wants (followed by other people who want to hire programmers for money):

(FIXME: add more things from "many ways to make money with OSS/FS" ).

Other interesting lists of software that people elsewhere want:

shared calendaring on the net / time management software

(FIXME: move to SharedCalendar?)

"just like what I have now, except fix this one annoying thing"

Many times people want something “just like what I have now, except fix this one annoying thing”:

(Idea: install Bugzilla and open it up to bug reports on all software, everywhere. Is this a good idea or a bad idea? Naturally we would try to track which software already has online, public, bug databases, and send people there when possible … so it would track the remaining software. What’s the Wiki:SimplestThing that could possibly work ? Set up a “everything_else” project on SourceForge?, and use its bug database?)

educational challenges with cash awards

sharpen the saw: better programming tools

Other than IDEs, what other sorts of tools would help people develop software? … program visualization tools … test harnesses … version control systems … ?

educational, non-monetary challenges

People learning a programming language often find it educational to write a bunch of programs “from scratch”, or “using only these libraries”, even though those programs have been written dozens of times by other students. It’s also educational to read well-written programs.

Here are some interesting challenges:

The article Favorite Programming Contests? lists several programming contests including

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“Why reinvent the sink, when the sink is there for the taking? … If you plan to write your own blog engine, take a good hard look at the code for existing Open Source blog engines and ask yourself if your needs wouldn’t be better served by contributing to one of these projects. They could use your help and it gets you a lot of features for free. Just don’t use the ones you don’t need.” -- "Rolling Your Own Blog Engine" blog post by Phil Haack.

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