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Have you ever had a moment where you want to have a service that solved a problem? Or a moment where you thought a piece of software/hardware etc. could be done in a better way? You could start with that.

Something cool could also mean helping out an opensource project, if you have time. Just my 2 cents.

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I feel like getting into the Python project and making some contributions would not only look good, but would make me a better developer as well. The only problem is that I've tried and I was so overwhelmed. I had no idea where to start and I tried fixing a bug and had no clue what I was doing.

Any tips are most welcome. :)

I can point you to two places:

1. http://pythonmentors.com/ This will solve the mentor-ship problem you have. Folks in the core and around who are mentors will listen to your problems and can help you on the way. Although they are very nice with newbies, please make sure that you try to be as clear and professional in your approach/questions as possible.

2. http://openhatch.org/ This website gives you small, medium and tough level of bugs in most of the prominent opensource projects.

Hope this helps.

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