Last Thursday, as a group, we chose 3 FOSS projects that sounded interesting. After doing some research on them, I've decided the Gnome Empathy project has the best support for new contributors. They give suggestions for developers, provide links to the source and details on how to build it, and have both IRC and a mailing list for contacting the team.
The other 2 projects the team chose are both interesting.
The OpenRemote project looks to be nearly complete, and it doesn't have much in the way of documentation on their website. Of course, it could have all the necessary documentation bundled with the source code. They also don't have any obvious IRC channel, but they do provide a web-based chat-room with logs of previous chats.
The OpenKinect project also sounds interesting, but it's not software in and of itself. It's software to allow for integration of the new Kinect controller for the XBox 360 with various operating systems. Their wiki has a lot of information available and IRC and mailing lists as well. It also links to the source code and provides detailed build instructions based on operating system.
I hope I'll be able to convince the team to go with Gnome Empathy, but they sounded very excited about the OpenKinect project.
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