Find a "small" project is probably best. I've contributed to probably over a dozen opensource projects on Github in the past year or so. I highly encourage you

Find a "small" project is probably best. I've contributed to probably over a dozen opensource projects on Github in the past year or so. I highly encourage you to find a few that you use and like. They don't even have to be really small, but I'd probably avoid projects like Ruby, Rails or the Linux kernel for now.