My advice would be to find a project you use enough to be familiar with what it does and vaguely how it works, and try to help.<p>You could start out by trying to reproduce reported bugs&#x2F;issues. Report your results back to the issue tracker.<p>Then, (if you reproduced the issue) if you&#x27;re able to, try to track down the cause of the issue. If you find the source of the issue, you can either report it to the maintainers (i.e. if its a language you&#x27;re not comfortable enough to fix it yourself) or, if you can fix it yourself, (and TEST it after!) and then either send a patch, create a pull request, etc.