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No, let's not broaden it. Let's not try and lessen the value of the hard work done by developers. Code contributions are what moves the projects forward. If you are doing architecture or design work that makes it into the code, but someone else did the coding and commits, yes, you contributed. Probably your designs should have been committed to git as RFCs or similar. If you can't make that connection, it should not be considered the same thing. Meeting attendance, for example, is irrelevant.

-Shawn