Add good first projects page (#204)

* Add good first projects page

Author: eatonphil

GOOD_FIRST_PROJECTS.md

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+# Good First Projects
+
+If any of these sound interesting, join #dev on
+[Discord](https://discord.multiprocess.io) and say hi!
+
+The first thing you'll be asked to do is go through one or two of the
+[tutorials on DataStation](https://datastation.multiprocess.io/docs/),
+and [try out dsq](https://github.com/multiprocessio/dsq).
+
+You'll need to have this little bit of experience using DataStation
+and dsq for these tasks to make sense.
+
+## Easy
+
+* Add a new supported file type
+  * Example: Messagepack, BSON, CBOR, UBJSON, XML, Yaml, Protobuf, Avro? HDF5?
+* Test out INT96 support in Parquet, add conversion to timestamp if necessary
+* Build dsq, fakegen for more/every os/arch
+* Preparation for optimized internal representation of data
+  * Do read/write benchmarks among MessagePack/BSON/Protobuf/Avro
+  * Make sure there’s a library for every language
+  * Figure out how to embed the library inside DataStation
+* More databases
+  * IBM DB2, Neo4j, Apache Presto/Trino, Meilisearch, Apache Hive, Apache Druid, Apache Pinot
+* Add a new supported log format
+  * Example: logfmt
+* Fakegen help text
+
+## Medium
+
+* Add caching to dsq
+* Autocomplete support in the UI
+* HTTP Range support for faster downloads
+* Add support for FTP
+* New usql cli (run queries against all DataStation supported databases in a single CLI)
+* ODBC/JDBC support
+* Research/benchmarks and associated blog posts
+  * SQLite vs Go port of SQLite
+  * SQLite vs DuckDB
+  * JDBC vs native protocols
+  * Regex vs lexer
+  * Copying into SQLite vs vtable
+  * Evaluate SQL parser libraries in JavaScript
+  * Fastest way to launch a virtual machine (gvisor, firecracker, etc)

README.md

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 Download the app and use it! Report bugs on
 [Discord](https://discord.gg/f2wQBc4bXX).
 
-If you want to contribute, there are many great first-timer tasks. Say
-hi on the #dev channel on Discord if you're interested!
+If you're a developer with some Go experience looking to hack on open
+source, check out [GOOD_FIRST_PROJECTS.md](GOOD_FIRST_PROJECTS.md).