The Importance of Contributing to Open Source Projects

When you're new to an open source project, there are a lot of unknown knowns. But on the other hand, there's a lot of things that the people who do know about the project don't know that they know. And once you've entered the project, that's it. You've lost that chance to contribute your very fresh set of eyes to either documentation or read me files and whatever it is that people are struggling with initially. So yeah, I look like I contribute to like a dozen open source projects on GitHub, but it's all like one line in the read me that they missed. That's a total valid contribution. 100%.