FOSS Benefits to Your Skillset
Most obviously, contributing to free and open source software allows you to learn and practice new skills in a safe environment. It’s possible to learn these skills on the job or in the classroom, but FOSS allows you a larger variety of options not only in skills to learn, but also in opportunities to practice them and gain experience. Sometimes, it may even be a safer place to practice those skills. If you do something wrong on the job, you may be reprimanded or possibly fired. If you do something wrong in class, your grade could suffer. In FOSS, if you do something wrong, you apologize and seek help to learn how to do it better.
This is, of course, an oversimplification of the matter. There still are repercussions ...
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