Move to practice...continue

Ok, I've spent some time with CodePlex but actually I didn't get what I was need. Anyway, I made some localization for one project, will give a link when localized version will be released. Also I have, and I guess that not only I, problems with joining to new projects as almost no one needs a tester in a team, some times even automated testers can't find a projects for themselves.
Still nothing on Github, but I must say that I didn't look closer for them.
Now, I want tell to some of you important thing:

1. If you want to find a project for testing, you must search for it, don't wait that some developers will ask you for a favor to test their apps, it's you you must ask them for that kind of favor also you must interested them in something, coz why they must "hire" you if you just like others 100 "green" testers?
2. Probably you could start some simple project and begin to test it be yourself and invite some beginner tester, like you are.
3. Not bad idea to find some "dead" of frozen project and test it
4. But in most of cases you should go to some testers courses and gain additional or general knowledge about testing, but this's not our way, because we want to made all of it be ourselves.

And continue to read books and sites about testing, this is a good idea to keep you in shape!