I have been contributing to VLC-iOS for about 7 months now, and it's been an amazing ride. I have learnt a lot and grown a lot as a developer. I started contributing to VLC because I wanted to work on an open source project in iOS which had a massive user base and was meaningful to me (I am an avid user of VLC myself). I started exploring VLC-iOS issue board to find something that I could fix/improve with not much familiarity with the code base.