JC has been contributing to a couple of high-visibility open-source projects I've been inspired by him. Thinking about choosing a few core projects I work with and helping them fix the common issues I or other engineers have to face. It'd be good practice to get coding again and do something besides work. Also might help folks at work get more invested and interested in such projects.
Been looking at how other companies make open source contributions and they seem to have an open source fund that rewards projects that need funding and also gives encouragement bonuses to employees that contribute. It might be worth it to become a cheerleader, organizer, salesperson for such a strategy at my company. Could get our name out there and make a name for us as a valued member of the OSS community, helping with not just attracting talent but also technical interest into company's core products etcetera. A company that has a proven track history with good software contributions to open source software projects could be seen as one that has good products and has its shit together generally. Need to work on the sales pitch better than that, but that would be the general outline.
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