The reasoning behind that question doesn't make any sense. The idea of contributing to a project that you're not personally interested in, solely based on an e

The reasoning behind that question doesn't make any sense. The idea of contributing to a project that you're not personally interested in, solely based on an external reason seems wrong to me. That's true for-pay software development, but is even more true when it comes to open source development. I think you'd be a lot better off looking at projects you are currently using, or in areas that are interesting to you, and hanging out in their IRC channels, reading their mailing lists for a while, checking their bug tracker, and tinkering with their code. At the very least, you should clarify how you want to help out, what you're interested in doing, and what your skill set is. The way it's phrased right now, you'd get more meaningful answers just randomly clicking projects on GitHub.