Terminated, need to upkeep skills

[const_antine]

Hi everyone, great board, definitely the best I've seen so far.

Here's my problem. I've been terminated from my job back in January, and job market hasn't been good to C/C++ programmers (I've also done some Java, JS/CSS, and a bit of Python, and I'm okay with MySQL). So all the skill and knowledge I've amassed during my employment is getting rusty, and since I don't know anyone who needs help on any software project, I'm stuck doing nothing.

What can people recommend? I'd gladly join a project, but I don't know any, and at this point I'm ready to help to a random person asking for assistance with her software project.