[Tutor] Working collaboratively (was: accessing modules found throughout a package?)

[Alex Kleider]

On 2015-10-19 12:37, Ben Finney wrote:
> Alex Kleider <akleider at sonic.net> writes:
> 
>> I'm a long way from distributing packages!
> 
> You can keep working at your own pace, and that's good. But even 
> better,
> I would strongly recommend that you work with other people early and
> frequently.
> 
> Programming is fundamentally a process of collaboration and
> communication with other human programmers.
> 
> The habits you form alone can be eccentric and unhelpful, with no-one 
> to
> comment on strange habits you may be forming without even noticing 
> until
> they are too deeply entrenched to easily avoid.
> 
> Working frequently with others on the same code base will not only 
> flush
> out these oddities, but also help you to appreciate the consensus
> decisions made in the past by the Python community as a whole.
> 
> So, while it's not essential, I would heartily encourage you to pick
> some of the PyPI projects you are enjoying, or want to improve, and
> contact their maintainers with your offer to fix specific things. Work
> with other Python programmers on a common code base, and watch your
> skills broaden and improve!

How I wish I could find such collaborator!
Are there any "starter level" PyPi projects the maintainer of which
might consider a novice collaborator?  I would have assumed that
such an animal doesn't exist.

I do appreciate the advice.

cheers,
Alex