> Thousands of students are all trying to get a low effort contribution in to have an extra line of "experience" on their resume and a T-Shirt from a western Silicon Valley company as signaling? Judging by the poor quality of the contributions, and the fact it's on GitHub, maybe folks studying IT?
Well, not exactly. There are a lot of people in India who are very passionate about open source and who actively try to get others to participate. So they organise events teach others how fork a repo and submit PR's. Batch-mates are either forced or join after seeing the enthusiasm. Unfortunately, these are not moderated and things go downhill soon where a PR is sent for the sake of it.
Well, not exactly. There are a lot of people in India who are very passionate about open source and who actively try to get others to participate. So they organise events teach others how fork a repo and submit PR's. Batch-mates are either forced or join after seeing the enthusiasm. Unfortunately, these are not moderated and things go downhill soon where a PR is sent for the sake of it.