New open source project ideas?

Question

I am thinking of either joining in an open source project or come up with a own open source project. Currently i did some brainstorming on my own. And i thinking of doing some projects like

• Online recruitment website similar to jorbb.com
• An offline mode discussion forum akin like the golden days of the ‘IRC’ era, which builds upon the unique idea of offline messaging system designated for a group of forum-goers or personnel. This will facilitates faster response time to certain topics or threads. A robust, powerful and more functionality packed ‘IRC’.
• MMORPG game
• an online name card information website where companies/individuals can actually store their name card information online so that they do not always have to bring along all their name cards everywhere
• setup an entrepreneur collaboration website.
• Anyone have other ideas? Or any nice open source project i can join to gain more experience before doing my own?

Answer 1

I'd recommend doing something that fulfills a need you have personally. That way, you have some motivation to tough it out when you get bored or fed up... and when it's finished, you've got something useful to you.

As for joining an existing one, pick one you like. The ideal project will vary so much from person to person that it's hard to say "here, try this one".

Answer 2

How about a website with open source project idea suggestions which people can vite up or down?

Answer 3

More of a question - Is there a site, forum or something similar to the suggestion in Harry's answer? I have what I think is potentially an interesting project idea and somethink like OSSOverflow would be great to test the waters :)

Answer 4

Castle Project, NHibernate, FubuMVC Subtext...

there are lots of interesting projects out there.

Just think about which one can give you the experience you need, and which one you can contribute to best.