Overall I've been impressed by @digitalocean's #Hacktoberfest to encourage people to contribute to open source.
It doesn't have any perverse incentives (you can 'cheat' with PRs on your own projects) but it celebrates developers who collaborate.
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TIL Drupal has a credit system to give preferential treatment to people and organisations who contribute regularly! https://dri.es/solving-the-maker-taker-problem
For hobby projects, I really like software where I can do small features or tweaks. Sometimes I don't have time for anything more substantial.
Website projects are great for this. Are there other areas?
Delighted to see that TOML has released a new version! TOML is overall a great standard but I understand they had limited people with the power to cut a new release.
https://github.com/toml-lang/toml/releases/tag/1.1.0