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I developed a patch that added the VAO WebGL extensions earlier this year and it's finally out there! So. Cool. And everyone at mozilla is really helpful if you're thinking about contributing for the first time.

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/introduction

This is great! Thanks :) Anyone know of any other open source projects that one can contribute to?

You could look here: https://openhatch.org/

Tor or i2p if you're into crypto and/or making the web safer.

KDE is usually very nice, and (believe it or not) the Linux Kernel (Just make sure you know EXACTLY how to send patches and so on).

Although lately I haven't worked in anything, would like to hear about more great opensource projects.

Both Django and Rails are very inviting. There's also Plenrt of libraries for many languages that can provide a smaller, more specific place to start (it's often easier if you work with it regularly).

With many projects though, some conflate "my patch was rejected" for "they're jerks" without understanding the impact of their fix/suggestions. Feature bloat, backwards compat, API verbosity, etc all add up.

Thank you for your contribution!

Sorry to be dense, I know what WebGL is, but what's VAO?

It means Vertex Array Object.

http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/ARB/vertex_array_object...

My understanding is Vertex Array Objects are one of the core browser improvements that asm.js taps into to make C++ based game engines (unreal, rage, unity) crazy fast.

http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/154994-epic-mozilla-releas...

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