I am a newbie in php and interested to join an open source project which can help me.Can anyone plz help with few forums that have this idea.I know abt source forge.
Sourceforge is the ultimate opportunity. However if you have experience with Mambo, Joomla or CakePHP you'll find they have their "forges" with opportunities to join teams. It all depends on what you are interested and what will make giving your time away feel worthwhile.
1. You can just start with posting in the project's forums. 2. Try to look at project's status/bugs etc and try to solve them. 3. Report your suggestions to the project team. 4. Post different solutions/extensions to any open source projects on your blog. This what I do...
Wordpress is a good place to start also because it is so widespread and active As for Mambo/Joomla, go with Joomla, as it is now more widely adopted and supported. Jinzora could use some life breathed back into it also Tim
If you are looking to learn and help out, try visiting forums.devshed.com which is one of the more popular PHP forums. Find someone who has a problem and then help them solve it, thats what I did when I first started.