[toastercat]

I would like to point out that side projects and open source work is more useful as a new grad seeking employment than a junior.

In my experience (as a junior 8ish years ago), companies were not interested in my projects or open source work at all, even when it pertained to the same domain. I'd say if you want to work in open source to make yourself more hireable, to pick a high visibility project that companies may already know (like WordPress, Redis, React, etc.).