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Ask HN: How do you find out about interesting open-source projects to work on?
- mindcrime 14y ago1) Read Hacker News 2) Check Freshmeat.net (oops, sorry, Freecode) 3) subscribe to the Apache Incubator mailing list 4) browse apache.org, sourceforge.net, github.com, etc. 5) check #opensource hashtag on Twitter, G+, etc. 6) Google "open source" + <subject I'm interested in> 7) Start your own open-source project 8) Quora: http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-cool-open-source-projects http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-cool-open-source-projects http://www.quora.com/Open-Source/What-are-some-cool-open-source-projects-developed-in-Israel http://www.quora.com/Open-Source/What-are-some-cool-open-sou... http://www.quora.com/Open-Source/Which-cool-Open-Source-Projects-came-out-in-2010 http://www.quora.com/Open-Source/Which-cool-Open-Source-Proj... http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-exceptionally-well-designed-open-source-projects-to-study http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-exceptionally-well-design... etc. 9) hang out at a hackerspace 10) local Linux User's Group, Java User's Group, Perl Mongers, Ruby Brigade, etc. groups / technical Meetups