By the way, I would love a suggestion with finding content to beef it up a bit.

I know GH is a huge source of OSS code, but how do I (easily & quickly) find code I can use that could be a good candidate to be refactored?

Ideally, it would be good if the code didn't have too many dependencies or it would be easily understandable so I can explain what the goal is for the refactor.

I tried just searching GH for the phrase "please refactor me", but that turned up a lot of old code and crap...basically.

I would love to be able to go through some of the large OSS projects (Rails, jQuery, any other large ones) and quickly find code that needs to be refactored and preferably have an explanation.

Anyone have any suggestions for how I might be able to do that without actually fully understanding the code snippet I am referencing?

Edit: Hat Tip to pkroll for also confirming that this should be a viable strategy to get content in his comment on this thread.