&gt; Whell I&#x27;m bad at playing politics. I don&#x27;t see why teamwork should be important for an open source project.<p>Well, mostly because you often get issues where you, as a team, have to make a decision.<p>Do we decide to support this specific feature, even if it increases our maintenance cost by a lot?<p>&gt; I&#x27;m pretty curious if there actually are open source projects that are in need of beginners.<p>There are many projects. A good way to start is by trying to fix some tiny things that annoy you personally, use your changes yourself, and try to get them merged. This is useful as (a) probably others had the same issues, and (b) you have already tested the changes somewhat by that point.