@dave@europhiles.uk I'm in a *similar* position. I've spent a long time in the open source world. Although mostly at Kernel & below. Obviously different projects can have very different cultures. I'd also like to try & make some modest engineering contributions post (recent) retirement. I actually spent more of my time at work waving my arms around & explaining open source to commercial people rather than doing any engineering! Anyways you didn't ask about me, so moving on from the unsolicited bio! https://goodfirstissue.dev/ is worth a look. If only in that it gives some inspiration for browsing GitHub/Gitlab & searching for tags (like `goodfirstissue`) or for projects using a specific language. If you also need to get used to the workflow (not intending to teach you to "suck eggs" maybe you don't!) maybe something like the TLDR command line examples project is good for limbering up to a new way of working. It's famously friendly. Hope that helps a bit.