Ask HN: Good open source projects for beginners? (early 2018)
What are some good open source projects for beginners here in early 2018?
Ideally I'd love pointers to projects that have a culture of nurturing new programmers - people who have had a couple quarters/semesters of programming at the college level, but are otherwise just getting started.
(I saw https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9305398 - the general advice in it is great; I was hoping to get an updated list for here in February 2018.)(Personally, I'd love to find smaller projects - it seems like a bunch of the projects listed in the earlier post are big things, such as Mozilla, Mercurial, Ruby)
(Side-question: I think this is a reasonable 'AskHN' topic, but if it's not I'd be happy to revise it and/or take it down).
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One of the links featured there is a website tracking resources to find projects for people who have never contributed to open source before: http://www.firsttimersonly.com/
My own FLOSS efforts mostly revolve around the Linux audio community (mostly musical software). There's plenty of projects from the very small to mid-large size. My focus is primarily on ZynAddSubFX (https://github.com/zynaddsubfx/ ) and the project is looking for new contributors. Depending upon an individual's interests and goals of contributing to FLOSS I may be able to direct them to other similar projects.
I have a good experience contributing to the Rust programming language. Rust e.g. has open issues on Github that are labeled 'E-mentor', when you decide to tackle such an issue, you will be mentored by an experienced Rust contributor.
The Rust community is generally very friendly and welcoming.