I had this same sentiment within the past few days, as I resolved to finally get involved in an open source project. I'm grateful for the mentions of OpenHatch

I had this same sentiment within the past few days, as I resolved to finally get involved in an open source project. I'm grateful for the mentions of OpenHatch and Launchpad -- I started with Github, and for as much as I enjoy the site, I felt like the emphasis on popular projects made it harder to find a place for a relative newbie to get involved. I seriously doubt that I'm enough of a JS ninja to add value to a project as thoroughly picked-over as jQuery, so seeing it listed repeatedly as a suggested repo was disheartening. I accept the advice of other commenters who say that contributing to OSS becomes much more natural when you're actively using a library in your own project and stumble across a bug or feature idea... but not all of us have those projects, and I think that's okay.