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Can contributing to Open Source lead to Consulting gigs?

Say I contribute to one of the popular frameworks or libraries out there (like Django or React). Does it lead to consulting work? As in companies reaching out based on contributions demonstrating a certain level of skills with respect to the framework or library?Same question for creating a popular library or framework that gets adopted by a decent number of people. People reaching out to get...

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