I'm a software developer with 40 years' professional experience, lucky enough to be considering early retirement. I love writing code and don't want to stop. I'm keen to give something back and contribute to one or more open source projects.
The questions are, to what shall I contribute, and how do I get started?
My skills are mainly C++, having spent much of the past decade programmatically dismantling and reassembling Microsoft Office files. I'm quite happy to learn Rust or Go, but don't really like webby front-endy ux stuff.
Any suggestions for a worthy project to which I could contribute? Please boost if you can.
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@daveDave Robinson I am in a similar situation and have decided to work on a variety of projects, some just for learning and fun and some to make a contribution.
My personal passion is improving the accessibility (#a11y) of apps that are job critical. I am starting with #Wireshark which I have contributed to in the past.
I don't have a particular project to suggest but perhaps consider the social causes you want to support beyond the particular tech that might be used.
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