Nice small FOSS projects

Daphron · 2010-05-30 01:57:32

I am very new to programming and unfortinately have been that way for a while. I can't get up the motivation to do much. I like the idea of working on a open source project, but most of them seem too big. I think a nice small open source project that is newbie friendly would help. (yes, I know to look for personal intrest and I will-- among the projects listed) Language isn't all that important to me, I can learn from the code anyways.

Ideas for small projects that I can do that would be interesting would also be appreciated.

tlvb · 2010-05-30 02:08:12

The general advice is to find an itch and scratch it, find something that you think needs improvement. I guess you could have a look over the bug tracker and see if there is anything in the feature requests that is in your range.

upsidaisium · 2010-05-30 08:06:19

I think the most obvious place to start would be with the applications you like to use the most. Everything can be improved in some way or another.. you could help by checking for bugs and testing new versions, helping with documentation (or translating documentation if you know more than one language), or get into writing some code and submitting a patch.

You can also keep in mind that many of those applications and projects that seem 'too big' probably support plugins, extensions, etc. So start smaller. Try to create a plugin or extension for your favourite browser, text editor, or whatever else, that does something useful that other people might want.

Last edited by upsidaisium (2010-05-30 08:06:39)

dmz · 2010-05-30 10:05:35

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#1 2010-05-30 01:57:32

Nice small FOSS projects

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#3 2010-05-30 08:06:19

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