This is one reason, I look at contributing to open source as a way of building reusable tools I want to use.(in service of some other goal). rather than trying

This is one reason, I look at contributing to open source as a way of building reusable tools I want to use.(in service of some other goal). rather than trying to contributing to them as a goal in and of itself. The most progress i seem to make are in projects of the first kind. As long as I can't justify it(time on OSS) in service to making money on some other goal, I can't work on OSS at all.