Wordpress Beta
Here is another big project you can participate in. You have probably heard about Wordpress. Wordpress is a content management system usually used for blogs. This site is one of many sites using Wordpress today. This is from Wordpress’ own introduction:
WordPress started in 2003 with a single bit of code to enhance the typography of everyday writing and with fewer users than you can count on your fingers and toes. Since then it has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on hundreds of thousands of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day.
How can you contribute to the huge open source project that is Wordpress?
Wordpress has an unstable beta version available for download. If you have a local webserver like WAMP, or another server you can use, you can download and install the Wordpress beta there and test it. However, Wordpress advice that if you want to beta test their unstable versions, you should be comfortable with PHP.
Everything in Wordpress is created by and for the Wordpress community, now you can be a part of the team too!