I would add, just because it wasn't specifically said -- 6) Get a GitHub account 7) Check something in. It doesn't have to be brilliant. I've made friends o

I would add, just because it wasn't specifically said -- 6) Get a GitHub account 7) Check something in. It doesn't have to be brilliant. I've made friends on some of the dumbest projects, with some of my poorest code. 8) Fork somebody else's project, contribute back a change, or a bug fix, or something.