[scardine]

Exactly, many people complain about about not being hired because they lack experience and they can't build experience if they are not hired.

My advice is always "build experience contributing to FOSS projects in your spare time".

We are pushing the envelope and often find bugs or lacking features. I want to hire people that can fix/implement those and send the PRs upstream instead of nagging the project maintainers.

[WalterBright]

There are no gates in the D community. Anyone can contribute. Of course, for contributions to be merged the bar is pretty high.