CodeTriage: Help out your favorite open-source projects
It&#x27;s somewhat more important to me (because I&#x27;m experienced) to find the right project vs a random issue in one of many projects... I don&#x27;t have trouble thinking of open source projects to contribute to, but I work in a big co and not super interested in trying to edit something like firefox because the community is too large.<p>I would prefer something like who&#x27;s hiring but for volunteer work where projects say look, I have this kind of side project, or we have this smaller company, we use this stuff, we&#x27;d love to have a competent C++ person (sub your language of choice) to fix this (Windows build&#x2F;annoying bug&#x2F;move us to an awesomer version of a third party&#x2F;rewrite the docs), in exchange, we&#x27;re ready to have a short like 10mn 1:1 over IRC or email or something to help you get started. And then I&#x27;d feel like I can really bring something to the table, I suppose.<p>Most projects say &quot;come hang out in our channel&quot; or &quot;just start with one of the beginner issues&quot;... but it&#x27;s a little intimidating to go to a new channel and not know what to say and walk in on people being already friendly insiders just to get a task. And I never know if it&#x27;s socially OK to pick an issue in the tracker and post and say I&#x27;ll fix it... what if I hit a problem or it turns out to be more than I could chew at this point in time, etc.