I'm 63 and have been "working with computers" since the mid 70s or so. It's been a great ride and it's not quite over yet. As to your specific question, perhap

I'm 63 and have been "working with computers" since the mid 70s or so. It's been a great ride and it's not quite over yet. As to your specific question, perhaps you'd be interested in maintaining some existing open source projects whose mission speaks to you. If you can contribute and bring more value than pain in working with you, I'd expect they would come to welcome your help. As regards the negatives and imagined negatives of being an older developer, I have to say that they just don't have any sting with me. Nothing has any sting with me anymore.