[abraxaz]

> If you want to 'protect' FOSS projects you care about, take some time to find out what help is useful to the maintainers and contribute towards items that make sense to you. Joining OSI won't help those struggling projects you gain from using.

Indeed, it is an incredibly rewarding experience. Take one thing you use and like, go to it's issue backlog and start fixing/improving things - if there is nothing take the next thing, there are likely 10s of thins you rely on every day that need contributors and contributions. The first issue will be hard, the next one easier, you will be a happier person for doing it, you will make a bigger impact than starting another project you won't finish and that nobody will use, and you will become a better engineer.

Another option is to fund actual open source projects, like go sponsor python: https://github.com/sponsors/python