[reposting an old comment] Which open source projects are you using and you like? Try to contribute to them. Start sending bug reports that are very useful an

[reposting an old comment] Which open source projects are you using and you like? Try to contribute to them. Start sending bug reports that are very useful and sometimes underestimated. Look how/where they fix them and the next time try to send a pull request (or another bug report). Fixing typos in docs is also a good starting point. If you want to send a new feature, start with something small, like a weekend project. You never know if the maintainer will like it, or if they are morons or if they have very weird code rules.