Want to join an open source project, but would like the suggestions to match my specific skill set

Question

I understand that this may be a duplicate question, but this question is very specific to my skill set.

I want to join an open source project. I am a professional software developer and graduate student (Master of Science in Software Engineering) and professional (in my day job), I work with ASP.NET, ASP / VBScript and SQL Server.

I recently completed my first course, and the course introduced me to MinGW , Cygwin, and GCC . This has opened my eyes to the power and grandeur of open source software. I always respected Firefox and Subversion - big names, but that gave me more insight.

I want to join a project in which I can be productive, but still can study. I would like the project to be at an early stage of development, but showing a promise (if it does not work or is terminated, I will find a new one). I would prefer the project to be in the Linux community, but expect it to work on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

Below are the technologies I am familiar with.

• .NET 2.0, 1.1
• SQL Server
• Sqlite
• Cocoa
• Cocoa Click
• MySQL
• Mercurial
• Subversion
• Cygwin
• Mingw
• Gcc / gdb

Ides

• Visual Studio 2005/2008
• NetBeans
• Xcode
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• VB.NET
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• Objective-C ()
• C ()
• JavaScript
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Answer 1

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Answer 3

If you are interested in C # and .NET, you should contribute to Mono .;)

Answer 4

I would recommend considering contributing to a project where you are outside your skill set. You get twofold benefits from participating in an open source project, as well as for learning new skills.

-bn