Start by running the project yourself on your local machine, if possible. Go through the documentation and see if something can be improved: documentation is an

Start by running the project yourself on your local machine, if possible. Go through the documentation and see if something can be improved: documentation is an overlooked aspect but key for a good projcet. Helping on improving documentation is mostly welcome. By reading and improving documentation you get to better know the project. Give it a try on you machine and interact with it. If you have not seen something that can be improved technically, go to the "issues" page and see what are the bugs I there, sometimes owners tag some of the issues as "good first bug", those are easy to tackle and help you get to setup a development environment for the project. Helping on Open source does not require you to be smart, dedication and willingness to help is more important most of the time.