In my experience most elite school CS students don't actually work on OSS. I see a lot of school projects posted to Github. That's why I like to look at it, bec

In my experience most elite school CS students don't actually work on OSS. I see a lot of school projects posted to Github. That's why I like to look at it, because it's hard to fake. You're right that it's harder for people who don't have the resources to buy computers and spend time learning/hacking. I've hired several really good devs who only had an HS degree but also had an OSS project, but a lot of people just won't have the resources to make that happen.