1 2016-12-07 15:27:16 <simul> i'm a very expereienced c++/python/perl dev, not familiar too much with the bitcoin code base, but worked a bit on some bitcoin merchant api stuff.   what would be a good first project to work on?
2 2016-12-07 15:30:44 <instagibbs> simul, so generally what people do is find something they don't like about X, and submit their own improvements
3 2016-12-07 15:31:12 <instagibbs> Or, start reading pull requests/issues on X, and over time start making contributions to review
4 2016-12-07 15:32:25 <instagibbs> Sounds like you have the right language base to contribute to Core codebase, tests, etc. I'd start by looking at issues/PRs in the github.