Django has a django-core-mentorship mailing list[0] for people interested in starting to contribute, a guide on contributing[1] and a selection of issues tagged as easy-pickings[2] that are suitable for beginners to work on.
I haven't personally tried it, but I did think it was cool when I stumbled over it.
I don't think that list is very active unfortunately. Also the easy pickings list has been mostly completed which doesn't leave a whole lot of room for newbies to contribute.
Funnily enough, having Tim (a paid contributor, also Core dev) do so much of the community work means there is less low hanging fruit for new contributors to get stuck in to.
Funnily enough, having Tim (a paid contributor, also Core dev) do so much of the community work means there is less low hanging fruit for new contributors to get stuck in to.