OSS Projects at NUS SoC

NUS-OSS is an initiative to help interested NUS SoC students become OSS developers.
Projects under the NUS-OSS initiative have benefited more than a million users.

Projects

We have a number of OSS projects that are especially suitable for NUS students to level-up their SE within the context of OSS projects.

Project(s)	KLoC	Languages	Description
CATcher and WATcher	10	TypeScript, Angular	A Desktop App for anonymous peer testing of software products. ( product website, project website).
MarkBind	10	Node.js, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Vue	A tool for generating educational websites from Markdown syntax. ( product website, project website).
RepoSense	10	Java, Javascript, HTML, CSS, Vue	A tool to monitor contributions to multiple Git repositories. ( product website, project website).
SE-EDU	1-10	Java, Jekyll	A collection of sample projects and other resources for SE students and teachers ( website).
TEAMMATES	125	Java EE, Angular, Javascript, HTML, CSS, Google Cloud	An online feedback management system for education used by more than 1,200,000 users ( product website, project website).
~~PowerPointLabs~~ now defunct	60	C#	A productivity plugin for Microsoft Powerpoint estimated to have benefited more than 1,000,000 people ( product website, project website).

Note that in addition to the OSS projects listed above, there are many other OSS projects based in NUS SoC.

Benefits

Doing work outside courses will set you apart from those who are only good in academic work and will increase your chances of getting,

good internship offers from other companies for SIP/ATAP
entry to selection-based courses such as CS3281&2, CS3217
FYPs in NUS-OSS projects
tutor positions in related courses (CS2103/T, CS2113, CS3218&2)

How to get started

Each of the projects have their own documentation on how to get started.

If you have limited experience outside project in school courses, you can start with a smaller project such as those in SE-EDU and move to bigger projects after a while.

Vacations are especially good times to get started on our projects as our projects are more active during those times.

Earning course credit

There are several ways to earn course credit for OSS work

CS3281&2 (Thematic Systems Project) : In these two courses, student work on existing OSS projects, including NUS-OSS projects.
CS2103R (Software Engineering - Research) : This is a 1 MC add-on to CS2103/T that you can do in the year immediately after you completed CS2103.
CP3108A/B, 2/4MC CS/CU), CP3106 (4MC, Graded): These courses can be used to earn 2MC/4MC for work done in NUS-OSS projects. See here for more info.
Note: Doing NUS-OSS project under these courses is available only in semester 1 (i.e., not available in semester 2) of each academic year, and only for students who have at least 4 more semesters left in their degree program.
CP3200 (SIP), CP3880 (ATAP) : Some of the NUS-OSS projects hire interns through these internship programs.
FYP (CP4101), Computing Project (CP4106): Courses aimed at final year students.

Queries

If you have questions, please contact project mentor Dr Damith or write to nus-ossatcomp.nus.edu.sg.