On 13/09/11 22:25, Tim Hanson wrote: > I have been a desktop Linux user for better than eleven years, as a hobby. > Back when we still did most of our computing on desktops I even set up a > rudimentary server setup in my home. Nothing fancy or anything, but I was > proud of it and of the fact that it was built Microsoft free. I have no > formal education in IT nor programming. Retired now, my career was finance; > I > was an IRS field agent. > > Since retiring two years ago, I have renewed my interest in software. I know > some C and lately decided to learn Python. I have worked through a couple of > the introductory texts and have a feeling for the OOP model, although I won't > be able to call myself an experienced practitioner anytime soon. > > I am looking for an open source project that will allow me to develop my > skills further. > > Financially, I'm set; I'm not looking for a job. I'm looking for some drudge > work, where I can look at other peoples' code and make a contribution. > Naturally I do not want to do this forever; I'm hoping to get up to speed > with > my skill set so I can work to more complexity later. > > Does anyone have some ideas that would help me?
This is becoming something of an FAQ - I don't suppose there's a canned response link somewhere ? ;-) I like to recommend CPython itself — which is a bit hypocritical, as I haven't touched it in quite a while. It has a constantly overflowing bug tracker where I'm sure you can find a lot of fascinating problems that need solving. The community, I have found, is welcoming and friendly. Much of the standard library is written in Python, but if you know C, you can have a go at the C code as well. Thomas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
