[bo_Olean]

Let me tell you one thing, I haven't committed any code to "popular" opensource projects yet. But, I've been closely watching one opensource project from its beginning. Dev team pushes new changes, there I am learning a bit more from it. That way it took me two years to build up confidence that now any code I submit to them would meet the code guidelines, standards and will improve existing system. I've been releasing small features on my own repo and contributing to community forum too. Now i think it's time to go ahead and surprise them with a new feature push.

You named >> mongrel2, Rails, Sinatra

I never understood this. Are there shortage of opensource projects in the internet ? I wonder why every one wants to commit to the already "established" and big projects. They have enough genius community backup to them. Why not give a shot to small projects just starting out in language of your choice ? I think, the end result will be more satisfactory.