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by lifeisstillgood 4421 days ago
To be honest it depends on your interests. I would start out with what floats your boat - you did a couple of Google internships - what were they on? DevOps? Big Data Analysis? Do you love maths or music? Build something that you will use each day.

Ok, chosen a project, lets assume it's pyMusicExample on github. It has over 300 issues, most of which have not been touched in months as the main devs are busy at the day jobs.

So, drop them a mail, introducing yourself and start triaging the bugs. Don't go crazy, see recent HN article

Documentation - Sphinx is a fantastic piece of work, as is readthedocs, but most of us do not use it as well as we should. PyMusicExample has code examples in their docs that no longer work. So make a branch and get the docs running doctest / coverage and get the examples upto date.