Since we had talked about looking at other projects I decided to take a look at WordPress. It seemed like a sensible choice because I'm already quite familiar with it.
It pointed me to a "training missions" program for people getting into open source that go over things like diff, tar, subversion, and git. I started these and hope to finish them with a short write-up for next week.
I subscribed to the wp-hackers mailing list which is a general discussion list for people working on the advanced WordPress plugins (equivalent to extensions in Firefox), and people working on the WordPress Core.
I also started looking at their bug tracking system,
trac.
I'm thinking that since the purpose of the class was to explore open source and so far I'm spending most of my time wading through documentations for technologies I not very familiar with, it might make sense to try making some contributions to the core of WordPress. I'm already much more familiar with their system and I feel like this might be a good stepping stone.
