Not exactly a project, but I was very active in IRC between 2009-2017. I stuck mostly to Linux and network engineering channels. I contributed to open source p

Not exactly a project, but I was very active in IRC between 2009-2017. I stuck mostly to Linux and network engineering channels. I contributed to open source projects, answered questions, and asked plenty of my own. One day I helped someone with some weird Docker issue in 2014. He later referred me to the company he worked for in San Francisco. I moved from my small 2,000 person unincorporated town a few months later, tripling my salary. There were other ways it could have eventually happened, but the serendipity of that was never lost on me. Changed my career for the better — tho I left that company a year later for a unique opportunity at FB.