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The FSF has some materials but this is from their perspective. There will be wide differences.
My advice, choose a project your interested in. A low hanging thing to do is when you find a bug put in a good bug report. If you want to go further, debug it yourself and send the patch or submit a pull request. Keep in mind most larger projects will have a developer mailing list or forum. One can talk through stuff on that forum to make sure what your doing is of interest. As far as VCS, I think most people use git but that too probably varies. Keep in mind to... the lead developer(s) will decide if they choose to include your patch in the main line.