Frequently on Reddit, and somewhat less frequently here, posters are told that a key way to market themselves when trying to get the type of job they want is to contribute to open source. This advice is usually tossed out nonchalantly in a list of other things the poster could do. It makes the act of contributing to a project seem like a trivial thing.

It is anything but in the context of DiBona's statement. Is this the best advice to be flinging around? Is that contributing to the problem? New blood in the open source world should be a good thing, but is there a balance to be struck between sending everyone charging out of the gates at whatever project tickles their fancy and maintaining the tight oligarchies that many projects seem to gravitate towards?