I've been coding in Perl for about five years now. I'm no expert, but I'm capable of taking a real-world problem and writing a script to address it. Code I've written has been from a two- or three-liner all the way to a 600-line monitoring script supporting a 500-server/1300-service environment. While many would be willing to put it on their resume at that, I'm uncomfortable with doing so.

I'd like to obtain some real-world experience. This is difficult at best, as I work in an IT infrastructure group professionally; professional developers are brought in to address our needs. So, I would expect the open-source world would be a good place to start.

I've perused Sourceforge, looking for a project where my skillsets would be applicable; however, I typically find that the projects that fit my abilities and level are abandoned or not looking for help.

What's a poor acolyte to do?

In reply to Where does one get experience? by UberGeek27

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