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That's my favorite question! I'm the project technical lead for Swift
(openstack object storage), and you'd be more than welcome to come contribute.
In general the problems we're solving are offloading the hard problems of
storage from application developers. Object storage let's app devs treat
storage as a utility: save stuff when you need to and read it back when you
want it, all without having to deal with messy problems around concurrency,
locking, distributed access, or very large scale. Swift is an implementation
of an object storage engine, and it's being used to solve storage problems all
over the world today. We'd love to have you join us in working on Swift.

As with any OpenStack project, there's some general "how to contribute
guides". The best starting place is
http://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html.

For more specific stuff for Swift, read over
https://github.com/openstack/swift/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md.

If you're looking for something specific to work on, take a look at the
"wishlist" category in our bug tracker.  * https://bugs.launchpad.net/swift  *
https://bugs.launchpad.net/python-swiftclient

Code reviews for open patches are always welcome too. We've got a review
dashboard at https://goo.gl/gSuaEG that has some priority reviews listed in
the first section.

Stop by #openstack-swift on freenode IRC (I'm notmyname) and say "hi" and get
involved!