I think open source contributions / patches depending on the project can be helpful and impactful. Merely giving back in any sense helps. Sometimes open source

I think open source contributions / patches depending on the project can be helpful and impactful. Merely giving back in any sense helps. Sometimes open source patches are not important in themselves, but taken as a whole make a big dent: A good portion (1/3? 1/2?) of my contributions are very trivial (typos, package updates, etc.) I use a few things to track open source contributions: OpenHub (https://www.openhub.net/accounts/git-pull https://www.openhub.net/accounts/git-pull), and a new thing called sourcerer.io: https://sourcerer.io/tony https://sourcerer.io/tony. It goes back to my first patches which were tiny and failed to conform to the project's code standards :P I hope this can be encouragement that little wins build up. There are also projects I've made that I personally deem important, but aren't known or are in a niche space. For instance, unihan-etl (https://unihan-etl.git-pull.com https://unihan-etl.git-pull.com), a tool for extracting UNIHAN (https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr38/ https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr38/). If someone is in a situation where they need an extraction of Chinese/Japanese/Korean unicode characters, this tool can save them a lot of time. There's more to the story: It's also a building block of a larger project, cihai: https://cihai.git-pull.com https://cihai.git-pull.com. I am planning on making this project a spiritual successor to Christoph Burgmer's cjklib (http://cjklib.org http://cjklib.org)