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Request creation of free software missing from the commons 🗽🐧🐏

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This is a place to ask whether free open source software exists for a particular purpose. If it’s non-existent, specify your software requirements here so your dream can be well articulated for everyone to either laugh at or share the dream and give moral support for you to create it yourself. Or you might even to pitch the idea so well that a developer loves the idea enough to run off and build it for you.

No other community exists for this purpose but there are some loosely related ones. If existing software closely delivers what you need but is missing a feature, you might post a wishlist/feature request here or in !bugs@sopuli.xyz.

The FSF has a software directory that can help with finding software.

Loosely related decentralised communities generally for FOSS:

There is also foss@beehaw.org but I don’t recommend it because the mod is trigger happy with censorship. E.g. if you post about FOSS advocacy it will get removed as it does not relate to any particular FOSS application. There are also many more FOSS forums duplicated in centralised places which are not conducive to the digital rights spirit of free open source software, so they are omitted.

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Suppose you are about to travel to some unfamiliar city, perhaps abroad. You don’t want to just show up without being informed or you might overlook some great restaurant or bar. In principle it would be useful to have an app that visits the websites of all (or select) restaurants in your destination city before you go. It could harvest all the PDF menus.

The train or whatever mode of transport may not have wi-fi, but having an offline collection of PDFs can be a good way to get informed offline and decide where to go.

If such an app would exist, restaurant owners would be encouraged to post PDF versions of their menus on the web.

The list of websites could be grabbed from OSM. Restaurants likely have to be licensed in some way by the gov or hygiene regulator, which could also be a source for website URLs (not sure).

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