PeARS is looking for volunteers!

[minimalparts]

After quite a few years of slow and interrupted development, PeARS is picking up some speed and we are at the point where we could do with some help!

If you have an interest in decentralised and distributed Web search solutions, do say hello here and tell us how you can help. We have needs ranging from Natural Language Processing research problems to front-end development. We need translators, testers, and community builders. Whoever you are, whatever you do, there is a spot for you here 🙂

Thank you for considering supporting the project!

[brentjanderson]

👋 I'm not able to commit much time to new projects at the moment, but I can share this more broadly. Was asking about the existence of something like this not that long ago on Mastodon.

[minimalparts]

Hi! Thanks for dropping in! Sharing is also very much appreciated, we'd like to start building a little steady community around the project.
Glad to see there is a need for this :)

[Poslovitch]

Hi. I'm quite interested by the project, particularly when it comes to the NLP side of things, so I might dive in at some point. I'm also a Wikimedia contributor, so I might be able to give some advice as to how to reuse the various Wikimedia projects to build, improve or populate indices.

[minimalparts]

Hi @Poslovitch, we'd love to see some code emerge to provide some synergy between PeARS and Wikimedia projects. It makes obvious sense. If you want to chat/talk about a potential idea, you know where we are :) We'd be happy both to contribute existing code and to hear your advice about using Wiki data. Thank you very much!

[Poslovitch]

Are you talking about Wiki data, or Wikidata ? 😛

[minimalparts]

Haha! Good point! I meant any kind of wikimedia-related data :)

[PhieF]

coming !