I thought the same thing, but I've had success in the past making pull requests for documentation or other "little" things like that so you could still find way

I thought the same thing, but I've had success in the past making pull requests for documentation or other "little" things like that so you could still find ways to provide value without having to do too much. It taught me to love Github even more - with the file editing in the browser I could clone, make my change and submit my pull request all without ever cloning the repo locally.