Would you like to contribute to the Linux kernel, to PostgreSQL , or Wordpress? Maybe that should not be your first choice.
Contributing to a well known, established projects used by millions of people sounds really nice. However, it has its difficulties.
For one, those projects have been around for quite a while so any simple issue is probably already implemented and any simple bug is probably already fixed.
So adding a new feature or fixing a bug will probably require a lot of time. Both to understand the code and to make the changes.
These projects also are usually managed in a much stricter way than those less established projects. That means you'll probably have to adhere to coding standards,
commit-message standard, etc. much more than in a less established project. It is actually beneficial to you to learn such practices, but it will make it harder to
contribute to such a project.
However even established project have typos, they also lack documentation, good examples of usages. Many have translations either as part of the application (localization)
or as translated documentation. They also probably have lots of users that need help.
So there are many ways to contribute to well-known projects as well, just keep in mind that it might need more investment on your part.
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