Hi readers 👋, welcoming you back to the "Appwrite OSS Fund" series, where we celebrate open-source maintainers. 🎉
🤔 What Is OSS Fund?
On the 4th of May, the Appwrite team launched the OSS Fund, an initiative to support open-source project maintainers. Being an open-source company, we wanted to give back to the community and help as many people as we can.
The OSS Fund is an initiative that is very close to our heart.
Hear what our Founder and CEO has to say - The Appwrite Story:
Announcing the Appwrite OSS Fund - Appwrite
Appwrite provides web and mobile developers with a set of easy-to-use and integrate REST APIs to manage their core backend needs.
appwrite.io
📢 Announcing The Ninth Project
After careful considerations from the committee we are thrilled to announce the ninth project:
Appwrite@appwrite
📢 Announcing the 8th OSS Fund sponsored project 📢
@grenlouis's project getleon.ai , an open-source personal assistant, is the choice of our reviewers this week 🎉
🔗 If you are looking for funds, OSS fund is still accepting applications appwrite.io/oss-fund13:00 PM - 28 Oct 2022
🤔 What Is Isar?
Isar is an open-source embedded NoSQL database for Flutter apps. It is very efficient and super easy to use. Isar apps run on all platforms and operating systems with a single codebase.
The goal is to make using multi-threaded queries, indexes, and full-text search as easy as possible.
Isar has detailed docs and a real-time database inspector to help developers build offline-first apps with ease.
🤝 Meet The Maintainer
Simon is the maintainer of Isar. He is a 25 year old Flutter developer from Munich who works at ClickUp. He spends most of his free time maintaining open-source projects.
💡 How Did The Idea Of Isar Come Up?
When Simon started Hive (the predecessor of Isar) there didn’t exist database packages for Flutter except for SQLite bindings.
Most apps still put little focus on being fully functional with unstable or missing connections. He wanted to help developers to deliver great user experience and performance even if offline and that is how Isar was built.
🚘 The Journey So Far
Before building Isar, there was Hive, which is a lightweight and blazing fast key-value database written in pure Dart. At some point, it became clear that Hive could not cover all use cases and was not scalable enough. Simon started from scratch and developed Isar to overcome all the previous limitations and deliver the best developer experience possible.
Fun fact: He had problems finding a name for this new database so I named it after the river in my home city.
🗒️ Ending Notes
As Simon continues to work on Isar, he encourages everybody to contribute to open source and says "even adding a missing comma to docs, goes a long way".
He also says:
"I would like to thank Appwrite for their fantastic commitment to open-source software and all users and maintainers of Isar for their trust and support."
If this story resonates with you or your friend, tell them about OSS Fund, as applications are still open:
Appwrite OSS Fund
Appwrite provides web and mobile developers with a set of easy-to-use and integrate REST APIs to manage their core backend needs.
appwrite.io
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