Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?

@antirez is all of the above to an amazing extent, however redis is one of the hardest projects to contribute code to from my own experience.

The community is awesome and very friendly and helpful though, and I reckon most of my contribution to redis has been as a community member helping out others or getting involved in discussions of redis' future, which is also a great way to get involved.

Openbsd.org

Drupal's community is what got me into OSS, even though the language (PHP) community seems to be at a strange crossroads currently.

I've also been somewhat involved in Ansible's community, and it's been nothing but a positive experience so far.

It's interesting to compare some of the different communities; some seem to value technical competence over diversity, some UX over architecture, etc. It's probably easiest to dip your toes in the water and just make sure you can get help early on—jump into IRC or forums and see how people react to some initial questions you have about the project.

I recommend looking into re:dash, which is an amazing and widely used data collaboration tool for your data. Arik Fraimovich is doing a great work with a growing community of contributors.

https://github.com/getredash/redash http://redash.io/

Disclaimer: I'm the founder of EverythingMe, re:dash was born in one of our hackathons but have since become its own beast.

Visit https://openhatch.org/ -- they exist to match people with good open source projects. Good luck!