I completely agree. The only thing that's topped getting a tiny patch of my own accepted (into pylibtiff) was someone getting me to put a python module I'd writ

I completely agree. The only thing that's topped getting a tiny patch of my own accepted (into pylibtiff) was someone getting me to put a python module I'd written* onto pypi. Both were great feelings, and it's extremely important to encourage such highs in new people contributing to open projects (Linux kernel or random bibtex editor alike.) * the library was in fact just a python wrapper for some C++ code, but that's where leverage for the original author starts, in bindings.