[mwdalrymple]

I would consider soliciting a formal mentor here on hackernews. Hacking on a open source project together would be a way to recieve that help in a remote fashion.

Sounds like there should be a thread to match mentors and mentees here on hackernews. Maybe a bunch of mentors post some open source projects that they want mentees for?

[coolguy2282]

I would jump on something like that, I'm a senior university student currently with no work experience on my resume. I have been unable to do internships during summers because I usually need to spend that time helping out my sick father every year, and it terrifies me that I'm going to have to jump into the marketplace with no internships or anything really on my resume.

Every time I try to 'contribute to open source projects' online I get overwelmed by the size and complexity of most codebases, I have tried numerous times, and have never been able to fix a bug.

This type of thread is something I'm sure I and others would take serious advantage of.