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by kamme 6151 days ago
There are a lot of different ways to help. Most people think the best way to help is to fix bugs or do code cleanup. While this is true, it's also very important to help other users. I send quite some time on a Linux distro forum and helped other people there. Same on IRC, I tried to help a lot of beginning users start mIRC scripting. It might not have been the most exciting things to do for most people, but I've been thanked a lot for doing simple things like giving a kind response and doing some effort to help other people. And after all, I'd rather work with some software if I know there is a good community of users to help.