Random Thoughts: On finding an open source projects to contribute to

It’s been a while since I wrote something here.

I have been busy forgetting I had a blog and since I took a sick day, I have decided to write something. I am letting my mind come with random thoughts here, random words, random sentences, random paragraphs. While writing this, I got bothered that the micro editor does not have automatic line wrap. I wanted to write this post using the terminal.

Anyway, maybe I can write a bit of what I have been looking into lately.

I have decided that I want to get more involved in the open source movement, and since Python has given me so much, I want to use it somehow. These days, in moments of random boredom, I was looking for projects, not quite finding what to do. I want to contribute to something that excites me, since volunteering needs a lot of inner drive to keep doing it.

And I think last night I found it. I love reading, and I love managing my book collection. Currently, I use Goodreads to follow this, since it has the biggest catalogue and my friends are there. But there are alternatives, and one of those is BookWyrm, a book tracker using the ActivityPub protocol written in Python.

So that’s it.

This post is also here to make me accountable, to myself and to my dear non-existent readers apart from my partner and I.

Maybe this blog should have this purpose. Document my process in fully getting into open source and the open movement.

Now, I need to find a good first issue.

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