FOSS projects looking for contributors

My work is super slow right now and I'm basically being paid to do nothing all day long. I'm looking for a FOSS project to contribute to on a part time basis so that my skills don't completely atrophy. Can anyone recommend some projects looking for help?

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Work on KDE Plasma. It's only modern environment that works on QML, the closest clone of XAML and WPF. The rest of linux has caught meme cancer and they think being stuck on technologies from 1991 is cool, using 2MB of ram on their 32GB RAM PCs and alt-f1ing in console mode.

WINE
Linux

t. Someone who has never contributed to an open source project and can't read other people's code.

This.

WINE, ReactOS, maybe implementing automated passthrough on VMware. Come on, we need more devs here. Help people escape Microsoft's jail.

What's the best way to get involved in a project like this. I always mean to get involved in FOSS but sort of chicken out. Should I just claim a random bug and see if I can fix it?

Build an open source Chrome extension or something. Basically something that can be open sourced since you're building it on company time using company resources.

Btw, full stack developer. Most interested in projects using Go, Java, Clojure, Python, or Haskell, in roughly that order.

Linux kernel.
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> This Challenge is also modeled after the wonderful Matasano Crypto Challenge
Wow, that's a really great idea. Thank you for alerting me to this senpai.

>Help people escape Microsoft's jail.
Stop sperging. Windows it's not a jail, it just has all the software people need. Linux with its cancer memes about minimalist console programs has split into 1,000 camps and hurts itself, diverting programmers from modern frameworks like KDE's and into irrelevant stagnating technologies that waste their dev time.
Ironically the best thing that ever happened to linux is Android, someone actually took it and tidied it up and concentrated the development into a single framework (java or whatever it uses nowadays), and I strongly suspect Linus agrees since he doesn't waste time to say Android=Linux every time.
Linux is its own victim most of the time. Blaming "M$" shows ignorance. It doesn't hurt MS, it hurts Linux being ignorant.

debloat Linux
WINE port to Wayland
Join the Wayland team
Port Wayland to other UNIX OS's (FreeBSD is in the process)
revive based OSS4

haiku os or otter browser

>Wayland
Doesn't it have systemd dependency?

no

am the same poster just wanted to add that
Wayland was made by former Xorg devs who can't stand how bloated and bad Xorg is, ao they made an ultra minimal replacement with next to zero dependencies along with an Xorg backend for backwards compat, and it's optimized for no tearing, it is the only display server running off of the UNIX philosophy

FreeVMS is an operating system with cool concepts and not based on Unix, they could use your help.

Pale Moon is going to need a lot of devs when Firefox 57 drops and Firefox ceases to exist independent of Chrome

For the record, btw, I really shouldn't have used an image of Torvalds. I'm primarily a Mac user.

Spend enough time with any free software and you will find problems. In my case, Zathura and mupdf for example crash for large pdf.

I bet the OP is a php developer with 6months experience and everyone is sperging for him to fix all their life's problems.

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think of something small but popular ,that you could easily influence with your work (or fork), or pick something that accepts plugins and think of a good, useful plugin extend functionality.

FOSS projects that are currently shit are
>Firefox
>Unity 8
>LibreOffice
Then again you will feel more useful on smaller projects, so it's up to you.

Based on what? Cuck.

that's a good idea.

anyone have any requests?

Nice try. Then you'll use your contract clause, everything you code is owned by your company.
Leave free software alone.

gcc is always looking for help.
how about you first state what you know / capable of doing ?

file manager plugins, removing duplicates, batch renaming, organizing by date. things like that are missing in almost every DE but have decent cli tools, people would appreciate good front ends for them. Minimal effort job but if you can do it right people will appreciate, there may be problems with the main devs though.

cowsay could use some new cows.

Here's another real problem.
Thunar of XFCE likes to crash when you copy paste files, create a folder etc.
It's in the bug tracker, affects a lot of people. Not yet fixed after a long time.

Software bloat.

mlocate/locate has problems with their regex implementation.

>inb4 this turns into gentle "give me reasons why linux sucks" thread

otter browser, implement stuff in the todo list on git hub.

LibreOffice needs a fucking rewrite.