If you are contributing to OS projects like you say you are, and managing to do a variety of freelance work for an extended period of time (min 1 year) it looks

If you are contributing to OS projects like you say you are, and managing to do a variety of freelance work for an extended period of time (min 1 year) it looks good. I would not recommend freelancing for a few months then trying work - it could make you look a bit lame. But if you can sustain it and show all your activity on GitHub it can work in your favor. Good luck!