While this post talks about GitHub, i think it very well applies to any distributed version control system. Having an open source project is another means of v

While this post talks about GitHub, i think it very well applies to any distributed version control system. Having an open source project is another means of visibly showing your enthusiasm, and even skill set. Notice how I don't say actual 'skill'. That is always subject to the eye of the beholder. By your definition, someone better tell https://github.com/jeresig https://github.com/jeresig & https://github.com/zedshaw https://github.com/zedshaw they're JR developers and should go back to school.