While this post talks about GitHub, i think it very well applies to any distributed version control system.
Having an open source project is another means of visibly showing your enthusiasm, and even skill set. Notice how I don't say actual 'skill'. That is always subject to the eye of the beholder.
Well, I've met some extremely talented people through GitHub who would otherwise be unknown. People who have built now popular libraries and frameworks.
Having an open source project is another means of visibly showing your enthusiasm, and even skill set. Notice how I don't say actual 'skill'. That is always subject to the eye of the beholder.
By your definition, someone better tell https://github.com/jeresig & https://github.com/zedshaw they're JR developers and should go back to school.