[munchor]

I contribute to some FOSS projects with hundreds of thousands of downloads and it's healthy from several points of view.

On the one hand, I made some great "online" friends and feel great as I write code that I know people will use and appreciate. On the other hand, I've learnt so much and I know that some of the skills I've acquired during these years will help me when I'm old enough to get a job and start "actually" working. I feel like I can also say Open Source will make the man I will be.

To me, it's amazing how I can sit back in my desk and shape projects being developed and used by people from all over the world. I rarely have time to think about the awesomeness in that, but when I do I always feel so fulfilled.

[leviathan]

Reminds me of the time I used to contribute to the enlightenment project. e17 was still not released, and very rough around the edges, I had commit access, so I wrote a theme selector app and put it in the repo, it eventually got picked up and included with the default installation of e17. Was the best feeling at the time to have something you wrote used by people all around the world.

Of course the project then moved on and my code was replaced.

[conformal]

open source ftw =)