[616c]

Some of us need tooling because we do not even know what to learn, or where to start.

Again, this on me. I listened to Wiegley talk, and wanted to get involved. I looked into one weekend, but did not follow up. I need to stay committed. I like the history and culture of GNU as an outsider, and this is why I wanted to get more involved in Emacs.

[pnathan]

Ask questions, read docs, hang out in IRC rooms. Some folks are on Twitter too. :-o

edit: Most of the floss world respects people who take the time to learn something before asking questions. So long as you dig about and frame an intelligent question backed by openly available information (did you RTFM :) ), the people worth respecting aren't going to trash you. I don't contribute to emacs myself, it does pretty much everything I could ever need. I would be happy to help you with floss norms and so forth... contact info in my profile. :-)

[616c]

I have been lazy, but I am trying to figure out how to set up an IRC bouncer for different respective projects specifically with this in mind.

I already emailed you. Thanks for the encouragement.