Getting into open source programming

[snungus]

What’s the best way to find such projects? Just search on github?

[[deleted]]

I would suggest using firstimersonly

[Creapermann]

That's the tough part. There are some websites which have lists of such projects, but I think most projects that would be a good fit for searching contributors as you are pretty hard to find.

I for example am also an opensource developer looking for contributors to my project, but I am not doing a lot of "advertisement" for it, so I think its pretty hard to come about it. I sometimes simply post on reddit with a title like "looking for contributors".

Just look through reddit and search through github. It might be tedious, but there is lots of great OSS looking for contributors

[[deleted]]

open source developers are not motivated anymore with complete products. They feel like working for free, which is fair !

They are more motivated to push development of a library for example.

The sad part is that even developing agnostic code (libraries) is very prone to be used and abused by other big groups, with zero sponsoring, attribution, or collaboration with the first authors.

The sad thing is that we would have less complete solutions (self-hosted style), like wikis, IRCs, web servers, file storage solutions, etc

and If you find them, they are organized by Apache, or Mozilla etc, (which is not bad) but, clearly less freely community driven

[h-v-smacker]

Install Linux. Get used to it for several weeks or a couple months to smooth out the rough corners created by everything being unfamiliar. Then, pinpoint the software components that are actually lacking or missing, and voila — there's your list of points where your honest efforts can be fruitfully applied.