I've found contributing to Helpful to be a great way to play with some fresh technologies and get production code onto GitHub while working with a team. The on-

I've found contributing to Helpful to be a great way to play with some fresh technologies and get production code onto GitHub while working with a team. The on-boarding steps and task tracker are excellent, even compared to larger not-for-profit FOSS projects. - You get to use fresh technologies and learn best practices from some excellent project leads and contributors - You earn ownership shares of future proceeds from the project - Your contributions are open source and visible on GitHub—this can mean a lot if you later go to apply to a startup job where "point to a few projects on your GitHub" is more important than "send me a PDF of your resume" You could do much worse per minute spent on a side project, well worth it in my opinion.