[yizzerin]

Do something exciting for you. More than anything, employers want to see you get excited and energized about something. So if there's some really cool problem that you want to work on and you create/help maintain an open source project related to it - that's great. Or make your own app. Whatever: it doesn't really matter, it just matters that you're into it.

[CoreSet]

Definitely good advice. I had a lot of fun yesterday adding some whizz-bang JS features to my personal site, so certainly feel the truth of this.

Any advice for getting started in open source? I always hear there are roles for newbies in even larger projects, but I'm not sure how to attack it all.