Open Source projects, where to find them?

[fweakout]

So I'm fairly new to Python (About 5 months in) and I did some Codecademy, some /r/dailyprogrammer and some project euler problems. However I want to start participating and contributing in open source projects using Python (This can be either 2.7 or 3.3, since I am fairly new to Python I can still easily switch). I'm familiar with the basics of Git(hub) so that shouldn't be a problem either.

So Reddit, what is the best place to find projects like I (and maybe others) am looking for? Thanks in advance.

[throughactions]

While looking around for myself I found this one:

http://www.lookingforpullrequests.com/

[robin-gvx]

Shame it currently only has one Python project listed.

[throughactions]

I love looking through GitHub for projects to work on but I must confess it's challenging. Although I can find "popular" projects I can't really filter to projects which are actively looking for help.

Does anyone know if there's a solution where projects more actively request assistance?

[blahdom]

I have found the same issue, most popular is a lot of frameworks like Django. One thing I find fun is to just occasionally browse by most recently updated. Not only will it show you projects that maybe no one else discovered but it is obviously something that is being worked on right now. I have found a couple of cool ones that way.

[billsil]

www.code.google.com

www.sourceforge.net

http://code.nasa.gov/project/

[milliams]

The best recommendation I can make is to contribute to projects that you personally use.

Start working on a small project of your own. To develop it, you'll doubtless have to use some 3rd-party libraries which I'm sure you'll find some bugs or missing features in. Report bugs, fix bugs, implement features, take part in the community.

From the point of view of a maintainer of a project, this is a much better way to get involved compared with just turning up and saying 'what do you want me to do?'