I do maintain big OSS projects and and try to contribute as well.<p>However contribution experience can very bad, if you follow the path of picking the most famous objects. Good luck contributing to Node, Rust, Shadcn and etc - they do not need your contribution, their PR queue is overloaded and they can't handle it. Plus you need to get to their internal circles first, though quite complex process.<p>The world is much bigger. There are so many help required from the smaller but still active projects.<p>Just recently I raised 3 small PRs, and they reviewed the same day!<p>As a my respect to all the OSS community, I have build <a href="https://helpwanted.dev/" rel="nofollow">https://helpwanted.dev/</a> website, which in the nutshell shows latest "help wanted" and "good first issue" issues, from all over github in the last 24 hours.<p>You would be amazed how many cool projects out of there looking for the help!