Maybe you’ve seen many good Open Source projects that are no longer maintained. One of the many reasons for that may be lack of contribution. In fact, there are many one-man projects out there. Most of any program’s users are just that, users, not developers. Nevertheless, average users still can contribute to Open Source programs to make them better.

5 Ways to Contribute to Open Source Projects Without Coding - Nongeek perspective

A wonderfully useful article this, although I have done some programming (in Microsoft’s C# - so potentially a little limited for open source!) my skills are more in the writing side of things. Maybe (getting really ahead here) I should make a new years resolution to get involved in an open source project. Maybe Damn Small Linux