show up and take the initiative. I watched @elsat do this in real time with damus. pick a project, find who builds it, follow them, review github issues and pull requests, come up to speed on the project and where it’s at, help facilitate and triage stuff. 

in OSS the onus is on you. 

 I taught him how to play Black Jack. I’ve never seen a fire in a humans eyes ingnite in real time as he doubled down. 😀