Is it possible to get web development experience remotely?

Question

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Good day.
I don’t know for sure whether it’s possible to ask this here, but so far I couldn’t remember more suitable places for memory.
If you tell me I will be very grateful.
I have been engaged in web development for a very long time, or rather, it was just a hobby until I got into one local company, where I got tremendous experience. From PHP/MySQL to VPS administration (ubuntu/debian - nginx/php-fpm), working with MongoDB, Sphinx, hg, Git, etc. There were good specialists from whom I studied for a long time, but unfortunately they slowly began to leave and I rested my head on the ceiling, I stopped growing as a developer. Since then, I have been trying to expand my horizons myself, I have tried many different technologies and frameworks, but I could not stop at something. For myself, I decided that in the team it would still be faster. For some time I tried to find local guys with common interests, but it didn’t work out. And now I thought maybe somehow remotely come out?
I looked at the vacancies of remote programmers - a whole list of requirements, full time and almost everywhere you already need experience in these areas. Now I am very interested in laravel and would like to participate in the development / support of a project on this framework. Another modern framework (Yii2?) is also possible. Perhaps even without a salary, the main thing is a new experience with a good team, or a specialist who has already eaten a dog on this. Those. It turns out now I'm looking for experience.
As I see it all:
- an interview, maybe a test task
- they give access / get acquainted with the source code of which project
- they set tasks, if possible, they say that they have already implemented something similar and you can see how they did it
- I complete the task
- I get some kind of feedback on the code
- further tasks are more difficult
The customer gets a free working code, I get experience. Naturally, no one can work for free all the time, if everyone is satisfied, then discuss some options in the future.
Is it possible? Where can you find such a team? What else would you recommend? Maybe someone has already tried this, are there any pitfalls?
Or is it still better to move to where there are more specialists in this field?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Probably easier to file your Open Source project for feedback. And you will receive the task from users in the form of Wishlist.

Answer 2

- I get some kind of feedback on the code

At best, this will be two sentences of 15 words to your pull request. No one will specifically call you up and explain what, how and where it is better to do it.
Move to St. Petersburg / Moscow. Remotely, you will remain a low-skilled govnocoder.

Answer 3

Can.

Answer 4

It is possible, but not necessary.
You will lose 10 years of your life.
The best learning is working within a strong team.
After that, you will easily overtake your friends (who are without offline experience), who will brag about their earnings from online work all this time.