How To Find the Right Open Source Project To Get Involved With

An anonymous reader writes Writing on Opensource.com, Matt Micene shares his thoughts on getting started with an open source project. "I came back from OSCON this year with a new fire to contribute to an open source project. I've been involved in open source for years, but lately I've been more of an enthusiast-evangelist than a hands-on-contributor to an open source community. So, I started some thinking about what to do next. When I was involved in projects before, it was due to a clear progression from user to forum guru to contributor. It's a great path to take but what do you do if you just want to jump into something?" Matt goes on to lay out several steps to help new contributors get started.

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Problem oriented

[Anonymous Coward]

Find a problem you want solved, then find the tool that appears to solve the problem. Find out why the tool doesn't solve the problem adequately and improve on it.
If no tool is available, start a new project.

try SLASH

[slashdice]

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