Honestly if you want to start an open source project for the sake of starting an open source project, its probably not going to work. You're probably not going

Honestly if you want to start an open source project for the sake of starting an open source project, its probably not going to work. You're probably not going to want to work on it after awhile and you won't accomplish much. What I would suggest is examine the software you use and problems you are having with it, or some problem that you have that hasn't been solved by software yet. After you find a legitimate problem that you have,set out to fix it(in the form of an open source project). That is generally a way to be successful. Its easy to get jazzed up about something you are using to solve your own problems and it gets even easier to stay motivated when other people with the same problem identify your piece of software as a fix. (I would probably say this is decent advice for starting a start-up as well :P)