I'm a second year student and all my programming experience has basically been volunteer work either for my LUG, or more recently as part of the http://fedorapr

I'm a second year student and all my programming experience has basically been volunteer work either for my LUG, or more recently as part of the http://fedoraproject.org http://fedoraproject.org The latter has been especially rewarding both in terms of knowledge acquired and the fun involved in participating in a FOSS project.