What I'm trying to do to get experience working on other people's code is get the people I know who are trying to build their portfolios to farm issues and so o

What I'm trying to do to get experience working on other people's code is get the people I know who are trying to build their portfolios to farm issues and so on out to each other. I know a guy who's working on an RSS feed reader and ran into a bug he doesn't feel like fixing, I have a Rails app that needs styling, we work on each other's projects. It's probably worse than finding big open-source projects to contribute to, but that's intimidating enough that none of us have done it.