On: Advice to Aimless, Excited Programmers

[fady]

fresh, eager, programmers should jump into any project that interests them, regardless if its personal or public.

[wtracy → fady]

Indeed.

I get the urge as much as anyone else to "build something new and cool" (spend enough time Googling me and you'll see I'm pretty guilty of this) but I think FOSS would be farther along if fewer people tried to start their own projects and instead contributed to existing projects.