This question has been asked a billion times on Stackoverflow however, the focus has always been on Non-Numerical Coding. I am looking for a project to contribute to within the confines of Numerical Computing and High Performance Computing. I would ideally prefer a small project but that's not necessary. What would be the best way to get involved in an open source project pertinent to SciComp?Where does one start looking for projects? What would be the best way to enter such a project? Feature Requests/Bugs/Documentation or other?Looking at something like ATLAS or Nix, how do you go from N00B to active?
On Finding Open Source Projects To Contribute To
numerics;software
I think you'll get most out of it if you contribute to projects you actively use for other work, since that motivates you to develop functionality you need yourself. Ultimately, this is how most open source software is written: by people who needed the functionality for one reason or another.In the context of our own project, deal.II, I had written a description of how to contribute a while back on our FAQs.