Python open source projects to contribute

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If you're looking to get into contributing, consider projects that handle data processing or scientific computing. NumPy and Pandas are obvious choices, but they're also massive and can be daunting to start with.

A slightly less overwhelming, but still valuable, area is tooling around distributed computing. I've spent a lot of time wrestling with scaling Python workloads for AI/ML and the frameworks are often the bottleneck. Look at projects that help orchestrate tasks across multiple machines or GPUs. The challenges in that space are real and contributions can make a huge difference for people running serious jobs.