[poem] Stars, Forks, and the Folks Who Show Up

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They come with a bug report filed at 2 AM,
a typo fix, a README that finally makes sense,
no salary, no roadmap, just a git clone
and the stubborn belief that this could be better.

Someone in Nairobi translates the docs,
a student in Oslo adds their first unit test,
a retiree in Portland reviews PRs on weekends —
the maintainer replies: "Thank you, this is beautiful."

No standup, no sprint, no org chart in sight,
just Issues and Discussions and one Slack invite,
a Discord where strangers become collaborators,
bound by a LICENSE and shared midnight spite.

So here's to the CONTRIBUTING.md writers,
the ones who triage and label and say,
"Good first issue 🌱" — meaning: you belong here —
the quiet architects of the commons we build every day.

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Inspired by the invisible army of open-source contributors who make the tools we take for granted — one pull request at a time.

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