OpenSource Projects - Is there a site which lists projects that need more developers?

Question

Morning/Afternoon/Evening all,

Do any of you know of a website which lists opensource projects which are in need of more help?

Let me elaborate, I would like to work on another open source project (I already work on a couple), however, it would be nice to have a site which lists lots of OS projects, their aims, deadlines, workload, how many more developers they are in need of etc.

Of course, I could just pick a topic i'm interested in, find an OS project and then work on it, however, it would be nice to see a diversified list of projects. Primarily because some little known awesome projects get little attention and big projects such as jQuery forks, adium, gimp etc. etc. get a lot of attention because they are well known (and of course because they are great)and thus get a lot of developers working on them.

It would be nice to see some little known projects getting more attention and thus hopefully drawing some people to work on them.

Currently there are many websites hosting os projects, such as github, sourceforge, google code etc. A website to centralise all of this into one place and categorise it would be awesome.

Let me know your thoughts please. I'm not looking for an answer per se, so I will mark it is as a community wiki. Your thoughts would be great.

Answer 1

Is'nt OHLOH doing something similar?

Answer 2

There is no single central depository of open source projects that need help. And probably never will be due to the size and diversity of developers.

But if you are looking for a project to work on, that would be a good question to ask.

Answer 3

All open source projects requires contributors. They will not post that we require 2 people as they are not paying or recruiting.

• You could browse any projects of your interest and pick couple of them
• Drop them a mail about your interest and ask for their road map. OR search the bug list and pick a one
• Contribute your source according to the project coding and complaince standards
• If your code is doing good they will accept your contribution.

Please mind that since you want to contribute for free, it doesn't mean that yours will be accepted. Each project has compliance and guidance and all contributors needs to follow.

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