When most people talk about "contributions to open source", what they mean is that you join an open source project and contribute code to it. However, that's not the only way to contribute to open source.
In 2014, I had written about seven other ways in which you can contribute to open source...to which Noah Slater replied, encouraging people to also promote the spirit of contributing to open source.
Each time you report bugs, help people on the internet and create your own open sourced software, you are indeed an open source contributor.
Yesterday, I noticed that some of my repositories were being forked. Happy that the programs I developed are of use to the community.
The file duplicate finder is a program I'd encourage people to use (and from the fact that an issue was reported, it looks like people are finding the project and hopefully finding it useful). Sometimes we have a lot of duplicate files and images lying around in various devices. This program helps identify and consolidate them.
When looking at how often people contribute code:
I just noticed, that my public view of GitHub commits, does not show what is going on in the private repositories (which show a lot more commits). This is something recruiters would benefit from keeping in mind.
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| Public View |
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| Private View (the actual number of commits) |
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