My first contribution was made to a Ruby Gem, which used XMPP4R Ruby Chat protocol. I think I was writing a chat bot! <3
I truly entered the world of source really via webpack! How I got involved is a pretty lengthy story. But tldr, I hopped on gitter.im and made a private chat, invited the maintainers and told them I wanted to be involved. We built a relationship over a few weeks, and one day, I was asked to be apart of the team. You can check out my episode on the changelog for the whole story.