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Discussion on: How to find open source projects as a new developer?

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Matthew D. Miller

I find the idea lists projects create for Google Summer of Code to be a great source of ideas for contributing to open source projects. These lists may have been crafted with GSoC in mind, but I find they are often great ideas for other hackers to use to jump into a new project.

Since the lists were created for GSoC, most of the ideas are created for people who have some experience in the language the project is written in but maybe not any experience with that project in particular. Also, participating in GSoC demonstrates a project is at least interested in mentoring new developers.

Check out the list of participating organizations on GSOC's website. Click on an organization you're interested in, and the Learn More page for that organization includes a link to that organization's ideas list. Most of the lists also give the required skills and estimated difficulty of a project.