Documenting Projects
Once you've started learning how to use your favourite open source projects then you can help others by writing or improving documentation for the project, be this simple how to guide or fully featured multimedia tutorials - the easier it is for new users to learn a product the more likely they are to switch to it and stick with it, as we've said many times already - the more users a project has the more people who are potentially going to help it develop and grow.
The first step is of course to read and understand the documents and guides already available, to locate areas where documentation is lacking or non-existent and to produce something to fill the gap. This might be on the projects offical wiki, posted to a forum or on a media sharing site - it doesn't even really matter if your attempt isn't perfect, hopefully someone will be kind enough to either help you fix the errors or to improve your attempt - the more involved you get and the more practised you become the easier it'll be for you to make ever better contributions to the community.
The first step is of course to read and understand the documents and guides already available, to locate areas where documentation is lacking or non-existent and to produce something to fill the gap. This might be on the projects offical wiki, posted to a forum or on a media sharing site - it doesn't even really matter if your attempt isn't perfect, hopefully someone will be kind enough to either help you fix the errors or to improve your attempt - the more involved you get and the more practised you become the easier it'll be for you to make ever better contributions to the community.