Wheel Reinvention Jam
The Wheel Reinvention Jam is a one-week-long jam where you create a replacement for a program that frustrates you.
Maybe it's a common utility that always breaks. Maybe it's a slow, bloated program that does too much for its own good. Or maybe it's a program that never caught on because the design was too confusing. Whatever the case, this is your chance to replace it with something new.
The rules for the jam are flexible. You can participate alone or with a team, and for as much of the time as your schedule allows. And there's no winner - our goal is to kickstart meaningful projects of all kinds.
To “reinvent the wheel” is to solve a problem that’s already been solved. But most problems in computing haven’t been solved, at least not very well. After all, computers have only been around for about 80 years - that’s one person's lifetime. Most of the tech you use is essentially the first draft.
Despite this, many people seem to think that we've hit the ceiling. They criticize others for questioning the assumptions that got us here today. And they ignorantly assume that what we have must be good, because otherwise why would we be using it?
