What are good open source projects in .NET that I can work on [closed]

Question

I am looking for some useful open source projects that I wish to participate. Please provide the websites and the projects.

Answer 1

Sites like Google Code, SourceForge, and CodePlex host thousands of open source projects that would love help.

However, my suggestion would be to look at the open source projects that you currently use. Think of ways they could be improved, identify bugs that need to be fixed... and then do it! Another great way to contribute is by writing documentation. Again, look at the projects you use. Write a getting started guide, contribute API documentation, write a series of blog posts. One of the biggest barriers to open source adoption is the lack of good documentation. It isn't as fun or sexy as coding, but it is critical to promoting a project and is a good way to get started.

Answer 2

Your first port of call should be codeplex.com. A fantastic array of .NET open source proojects are available here, and something should be available that catches your interest.

Answer 3

No one has mentioned http://github.com/ yet. It's worth checking out as well.

Answer 4

NHibernate. One of the best ORM frameworks for .NET that is open source. You would learn a lot from the code base.

Answer 5

I would look at this project in Codeplex. It was originally released with .Net 1.0 and has recently revised to work with 2.0. Not only do you get to learn from the programming, it is fun as well!

http://www.codeplex.com/terrarium2

Answer 6

I maintain a class library called SixPack. We are looking for contributors and testers if you are interested.

http://code.google.com/p/sixpack-library/