AndroidTW

I've been a technical writer since 1995. I feel like age discrimination is less of an issue for technical writers than software engineers, but I'm sure it's still a thing.

How many years do you established writers shave off of your work experience?

I've been a technical writer for 26 years. In that time, I've recommended people looking to break into tech writing to get involved in an open source project to get experience and have work that they can point potential employers to. I feel like a hypocrite, though, since I've never gotten involved in one, myself!

So, in an effort to practice what I preach, I'm looking to start contributing to an open source project as part of [Hacktoberfest](https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/) (though hopefully continuing on beyond the end of October).

If anyone can recommend a project that either you contribute to, yourself, or that you know is in a posit