[CaliforniaKarl]

Personal work helped get me hired to my first job out of college.

In my latter years at college, I spent Summer & my spare time contributing to the Bugzilla project. My work on that project, and my involvement in the project's IRC, caught the attention of someone who worked at the company which eventually hired me. They were looking for someone to take over admin of their Bugzilla instance (a very large, customized, private installation). The work I did was enough for them to hire and relocate me from Ohio to California.