Meaningful projects

This repository holds the socially impactful open-source projects listed on https://meaningfulcode.org.

The frontend source code can be found at https://github.com/Meaningful-Code/meaningfulcode-frontend.

Contributing

Do you have impactful project? Awesome!

Feel free to create a pull request editing this README.md file, adding the project name and information. Alternatively, you can use this online form to submit a project.

To be accepted, the project needs to align with the following criteria:

• Open-source
• Welcoming external contributors
• Has a positive impact
  • Environment, health, society, education, humanitarian, accessibility
• Actively worked on (10 or more commits in the last 6 months)

Impactful Project List

• COVID19Tracking/website:

  • Categories: health
  • Description: The COVID Tracking Project website
  • Website URL: https://covidtracking.com/

• Call-for-Code-for-Racial-Justice/FairChange:

  • Categories: society
  • Description: Mobile application to capture incidents / provide information to police officers aimed at avoiding escalation, central map view to enable search & visualization of incident clusters
  • Website URL:

• Call-for-Code-for-Racial-Justice/Five-Fifths-Voter:

  • Categories: society
  • Description: Five Fifths Voter is a web application tool designed to enable and empower Black people and others to exercise their right to vote by ensuring their voice is heard
  • Website URL:

• Call-for-Code-for-Racial-Justice/Incident-Accuracy-Reporting-System:

  • Categories: society
  • Description: Incident Accuracy Reporting System (IARS) is a Content Management application that addresses the issue of transparency surrounding police incident reporting by allowing witnesses and/or victims to directly submit evidence (images, videos)
  • Website URL:

• Call-for-Code-for-Racial-Justice/Legit-Info:

  • Categories: society
  • Description: "Legit Info" app helps residents understand the impact of legislation and policies based on their country, state, county, city, district location
  • Website URL:

• Call-for-Code-for-Racial-Justice/Open-Sentencing:

  • Categories: society
  • Description: To help public defenders better serve their clients, Open Sentencing shows racial bias in data such as demographics providing insights for each case
  • Website URL:

• Call-for-Code-for-Racial-Justice/TakeTwo:

  • Categories: society
  • Description: TakeTwo solution provides a quick and simple tool for media creators and media consumers to be more vigilant to detect and eliminate racial bias (both overt and subtle) in their content
  • Website URL:

• Call-for-Code/DroneAid:

  • Categories: society
  • Description: Aerial scout for first responders. DroneAid uses machine learning to detect calls for help on the ground placed by those in need.
  • Website URL:

• Call-for-Code/Liquid-Prep:

  • Categories: environment
  • Description: Liquid Prep offers an end-to-end solution for farmers looking to optimize their water usage, especially during times of drought.
  • Website URL:

• ClusterDuck-Protocol/ClusterDuck-Protocol:

  • Categories: society
  • Description: Firmware for an ad-hoc mesh network of Internet-of-Things devices based on LoRa (Long Range radio) that can be deployed quickly and at low cost.
  • Website URL: https://clusterduckprotocol.org

• CroceRossaItaliana/jorvik:

  • Categories: humanitarian
  • Description: 'Jorvik' is the codename for the second and latest version of the Gaia Project, used by Italian Red Cross. ISSUES: https://jira.gaia.cri.it/browse/JO
  • Website URL: https://gaia.cri.it

• DICOMcloud/DICOMcloud:

  • Categories: health
  • Description: Azure friendly DICOMweb part 18 .NET server with qido-rs, wado-rs, stow-rs, wado-uri RESTful implementation
  • Website URL: http://dicomcloud.azurewebsites.net/

• DPGAlliance/DPG-Standard:

  • Categories: society
  • Description: Digital Public Goods Standard
  • Website URL:

• Equal-Vote/star-server:

  • Categories: society
  • Description: STAR Voting is an upgrade to our current way of voting that allows voters to score candidates from 0 to 5. Ultimately, STAR Voting elects candidates who better represent the whole of the electorate. We are building a site that lets everyone from individuals to organizations use STAR Voting to host simple polls or run secure elections.
  • Website URL:

• EvilPort2/Sign-Language:

  • Categories: accessibility
  • Description: A very simple CNN project.
  • Website URL:

• GNOME/orca:

  • Categories: accessibility
  • Description: Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/orca
  • Website URL: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/orca

• HTBox/allReady:

  • Categories: humanitarian
  • Description: This repo contains the code for allReady, an open-source solution focused on increasing awareness, efficiency and impact of preparedness campaigns as they are delivered by humanitarian and disaster response organizations in local communities.
  • Website URL: http://www.htbox.org/projects/allready

• HXLStandard/hxl-proxy:

  • Categories: humanitarian
  • Description: Web-based data proxy for transforming, filtering, and validating humanitarian datasets. Supports Python 3.x only.
  • Website URL: http://proxy.hxlstandard.org

• HXLStandard/libhxl-python:

  • Categories: humanitarian
  • Description: Python support library for the Humanitarian Exchange Language (HXL) data standard.
  • Website URL:

• HardenedBSD/hardenedBSD:

  • Categories: society
  • Description: HardenedBSD implements strong exploit mitigations and security hardening technologies on top of FreeBSD, with a direct focus on the nexus between human rights and information security. HardenedBSD is the first (and only) enterprise operating system to have every part of its public infrastructure accessible by human-rights focused technologies like Tor Onion Services.
  • Website URL: https://hardenedbsd.org

• ISAC-SIMO/ISAC-SIMO:

  • Categories: society
  • Description: Build Change - Intelligent Supervision Assistant for Construction - Sistema Inteligente de Monitoreo de Obra. This project is an offshoot of PD3R, runner-up in the CFC 2018 Global Challenge.
  • Website URL: https://www.isac-simo.net

• Khan/perseus:

  • Categories: education
  • Description: Perseus is Khan Academy's exercise question editor and renderer.
  • Website URL: https://khan.github.io/perseus/

• Meaningful-Code/meaningfulcode-frontend:

  • Categories: society
  • Description: Frontend code for https://meaningfulcode.org, to promote open source projects with a social impact, that people can contribute to.
  • Website URL: https://meaningfulcode.org

• NMF-earth/nmf-app:

  • Categories: environment
  • Description: Understand and reduce your carbon footprint 🌱 iOS & Android.
  • Website URL: https://nmf.earth

• OHIF/Viewers:

  • Categories: health
  • Description: OHIF zero-footprint DICOM viewer and oncology specific Lesion Tracker, plus shared extension packages
  • Website URL: https://docs.ohif.org/

• ONEARMY/community-platform:

  • Categories: environment
  • Description: A platform to build useful communities that aim to tackle global problems
  • Website URL: https://platform.onearmy.earth

• OpenPsiMu/ThePhysicsHub:

  • Categories: education
  • Description: The Physics Hub is an open source physics simulations project that is being developed by physics students worldwide and aims to deliver clear and easy to understand physics simulations free for everyone!
  • Website URL: https://physicsub-198fbf007acd.herokuapp.com/

• OpenTreeMap/otm-core:

  • Categories: environment
  • Description: OpenTreeMap is a collaborative platform for crowdsourced tree inventory, ecosystem services calculations, urban forestry analysis, and community engagement.
  • Website URL: www.opentreemap.org

• OperationCode/front-end:

  • Categories: education
  • Description: Operation Code's website
  • Website URL: https://operationcode.org

• Pyrrha-Platform/Pyrrha:

  • Categories: health
  • Description: Version 4 of the Prometeo codebase released as Pyrrha, a Call for Code® with The Linux Foundation project. Start here, then explore the hardware, firmware, analytics, and mobile components.
  • Website URL: https://pyrrha-platform.org

• RareCamp/RareCamp:

  • Categories: health
  • Description: Source code for RareCamp project
  • Website URL:

• RobertCsordas/MobilECG-II:

  • Categories: health
  • Description: Open source ECG holter
  • Website URL:

• Sulstice/global-chem:

  • Categories: education
  • Description: A General Public Dictionary of Common Chemical Names to their Molecular Definition
  • Website URL: https://www.globalchemistry.org

• Terrastories/terrastories:

  • Categories: society
  • Description: Terrastories is a geostorytelling application for mapping, managing and sharing place-based stories.
  • Website URL: https://terrastories.app

• Trusted-AI/AIF360:

  • Categories: society
  • Description: A comprehensive set of fairness metrics for datasets and machine learning models, explanations for these metrics, and algorithms to mitigate bias in datasets and models.
  • Website URL: https://aif360.res.ibm.com/

• WorldHealthOrganization/app:

  • Categories: health
  • Description: COVID-19 App
  • Website URL:

• bcbio/bcbio-nextgen:

  • Categories: health
  • Description: Validated, scalable, community developed variant calling, RNA-seq and small RNA analysis
  • Website URL: https://bcbio-nextgen.readthedocs.io

• bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton:

  • Categories: education
  • Description: Complete open source web conferencing system.
  • Website URL: https://bigbluebutton.org

• bigdatagenomics/adam:

  • Categories: health
  • Description: ADAM is a genomics analysis platform with specialized file formats built using Apache Avro, Apache Spark, and Apache Parquet. Apache 2 licensed.
  • Website URL:

• boxwise/boxtribute:

  • Categories: humanitarian
  • Description: The code base for Boxtribute 2.0, a humanitarian aid web application making it easy to source, store and distribute goods to people in need in a fair and dignified way
  • Website URL: https://www.boxtribute.org/

• chamilo/chamilo-lms:

  • Categories: education, accessibility
  • Description: Chamilo is a learning management system focused on ease of use and accessibility
  • Website URL: https://chamilo.org

• coralproject/talk:

  • Categories: society
  • Description: A better commenting experience from Vox Media
  • Website URL: https://coralproject.net

• cornerstonejs/cornerstone:

  • Categories: health
  • Description: JavaScript library to display interactive medical images including but not limited to DICOM
  • Website URL: https://docs.cornerstonejs.org/

• decidim/decidim:

  • Categories: society
  • Description: The participatory democracy framework. A generator and multiple gems made with Ruby on Rails
  • Website URL: https://decidim.org/

• electricitymaps/electricitymaps-contrib:

  • Categories: environment
  • Description: A real-time visualisation of the CO2 emissions of electricity consumption
  • Website URL: https://app.electricitymaps.com

• element-hq/synapse:

  • Categories: society
  • Description: Synapse: Matrix homeserver written in Python/Twisted.
  • Website URL: https://element-hq.github.io/synapse

• espeak-ng/espeak-ng:

  • Categories: accessibility
  • Description: eSpeak NG is an open source speech synthesizer that supports more than hundred languages and accents.
  • Website URL:

• grey-software/Material-Math:

  • Categories: education
  • Description: Practice Math problems in a fun, beautiful, material experience!
  • Website URL: https://material-math.grey.software

• hotosm/hotosm-website:

  • Categories: humanitarian
  • Description: The website of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. See instructions below for writing blog posts or updating your profile.
  • Website URL: https://www.hotosm.org

• hubblo-org/scaphandre:

  • Categories: environment
  • Description: ⚡ Energy consumption metrology agent. Let "scaph" dive and bring back the metrics that will help you make your systems and applications more sustainable !
  • Website URL:

• iamvon/viBlind:

  • Categories: accessibility
  • Description: 👀 An intelligent tool to support blind people
  • Website URL:

• ifmeorg/ifme:

  • Categories: health
  • Description: Free, open source mental health communication web app to share experiences with loved ones
  • Website URL: http://www.if-me.org/

• inaturalist/INaturalistIOS:

  • Categories: environment
  • Description: iNaturalist iOS app
  • Website URL:

• inaturalist/SeekReactNative:

  • Categories: environment
  • Description: Seek v2, built with React Native for Android and iOS
  • Website URL: https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/seek_app

• inaturalist/iNaturalistAndroid:

  • Categories: environment
  • Description: Android app for iNaturalist.org
  • Website URL: https://market.android.com/details?id=org.inaturalist.android

• inaturalist/inaturalist:

  • Categories: environment
  • Description: The Rails app behind iNaturalist.org
  • Website URL: http://www.inaturalist.org

• mapswipe/mapswipe:

  • Categories: humanitarian
  • Description: MapSwipe mobile application
  • Website URL: https://mapswipe.org

• mapswipe/python-mapswipe-workers:

  • Categories: humanitarian
  • Description: MapSwipe Back-End
  • Website URL: https://mapswipe-workers.readthedocs.io

• margaritahumanitarian/helpafamily:

  • Categories: humanitarian
  • Description: Impactful ways to help families in need through donated meals, hygiene kits, and more. By Margarita Humanitarian Foundation.
  • Website URL: https://helpafamily.margaritahumanitarian.org/

• mathdroid/covid-19-api:

  • Categories: health
  • Description: COVID-19 global data (from JHU CSSE for now) as-a-service
  • Website URL: https://covid19.mathdro.id

• mawoka-myblock/ClassQuiz:

  • Categories: education
  • Description: ClassQuiz is a quiz-application like Kahoot!, but open-source.
  • Website URL: https://classquiz.de

• muke1908/chat-e2ee:

  • Categories: society
  • Description: End-to-end encrypted disposable chat sessions, exchange sensitive information with peer safely and securely.
  • Website URL: https://chat-e2ee-2.azurewebsites.net/

• nebulabio/gluco:

  • Categories: health
  • Description: An open source glucometer
  • Website URL:

• neherlab/covid19_scenarios:

  • Categories: health
  • Description: Models of COVID-19 outbreak trajectories and hospital demand
  • Website URL: https://covid19-scenarios.org

• noodle-run/noodle:

  • Categories: education
  • Description: Rethinking Student Productivity
  • Website URL: https://noodle.run

• nvaccess/nvda:

  • Categories: accessibility
  • Description: NVDA, the free and open source Screen Reader for Microsoft Windows
  • Website URL:

• openeew/openeew:

  • Categories: society
  • Description: Introduction to OpenEEW, an open-source Earthquake Early-Warning toolkit
  • Website URL: https://openeew.com

• openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-server:

  • Categories: society
  • Description: Open Food Facts database, API server and web interface - 🐪🦋 Perl, CSS and JS coders welcome 😊 For helping in Python, see Robotoff or taxonomy-editor
  • Website URL:

• openfoodfacts/smooth-app:

  • Categories: society
  • Description: The new Open Food Facts mobile application for Android and iOS, crafted with Flutter and Dart
  • Website URL: https://world.openfoodfacts.org/open-food-facts-mobile-app?utm_source=off&utf_medium=web&utm_campaign=github-repo

• openfoodfoundation/openfoodnetwork:

  • Categories: society
  • Description: Connect suppliers, distributors and consumers to trade local produce.
  • Website URL: https://www.openfoodnetwork.org

• openml/OpenML:

  • Categories: education
  • Description: Open Machine Learning
  • Website URL: https://openml.org

• opensolarproject/OSPController:

  • Categories: environment
  • Description: ESP32 Smart Solar Charger - the Open Solar Project
  • Website URL: https://github.com/opensolarproject/OSPController/wiki

• oppia/oppia:

  • Categories: education
  • Description: A free, online learning platform to make quality education accessible for all.
  • Website URL: https://www.oppia.org

• platelet-app/platelet:

  • Categories: health, humanitarian
  • Description: Dispatch system for emergency volunteer couriers.
  • Website URL: https://platelet.app

• project-callisto/callisto-core:

  • Categories: society
  • Description: Report intake, escrow, matching and secure delivery code for Callisto, an online reporting system for sexual assault.
  • Website URL: https://www.projectcallisto.org

• pvlib/pvlib-python:

  • Categories: environment
  • Description: A set of documented functions for simulating the performance of photovoltaic energy systems.
  • Website URL: https://pvlib-python.readthedocs.io

• rii-mango/Papaya:

  • Categories: health
  • Description: A pure JavaScript medical research image viewer.
  • Website URL:

• rubyforgood/human-essentials:

  • Categories: humanitarian
  • Description: Human Essentials is an inventory management system for diaper, incontinence, and period-supply banks. It supports them in distributing to partners, tracking inventory, and reporting stats and analytics.
  • Website URL: https://humanessentials.app

• sahilkhoslaa/AudioToSignLanguageConverter:

  • Categories: accessibility
  • Description: A web based application which accepts Audio/ Voice as input and converts it to corresponding Sign Language for Deaf people.
  • Website URL:

• satinder147/DeepWay.v2:

  • Categories: accessibility
  • Description: Autonomous navigation for blind people
  • Website URL:

• scratchfoundation/scratch-gui:

  • Categories: education
  • Description: Graphical User Interface for creating and running Scratch 3.0 projects.
  • Website URL: https://scratchfoundation.github.io/scratch-gui/develop/

• scratchfoundation/scratch-www:

  • Categories: education
  • Description: Standalone web client for Scratch
  • Website URL: https://scratch.mit.edu

• shootismoke/mobile-app:

  • Categories: environment
  • Description: See your city's air pollution measured in daily cigarettes. iOS/Android.
  • Website URL: https://shootismoke.app

• signdict/website:

  • Categories: accessibility
  • Description: A sign language dictionary
  • Website URL: https://signdict.org

• ushahidi/platform:

  • Categories: society
  • Description: Ushahidi Platform API version 3+
  • Website URL: http://ushahidi.com

• ushahidi/platform-client:

  • Categories: humanitarian
  • Description: Ushahidi Platform Client, version 3+
  • Website URL: http://ushahidi.com

• yueureka/WildFireDetection:

  • Categories: environment
  • Description: Using U-Net Model to Detect Wildfire from Satellite Imagery
  • Website URL: