: This article I wrote about getting started contributing to projects may give you some ideas. : : http://blog.smartbear.com/software-quality/bid/167051/14-Ways-to-Contribute-to-Open-Source-without-Being-a-Programming-Genius-or-a-Rock-Star
Or pehaps even the followup i did of Andy's article layering his advice directly on to Solr... http://searchhub.org/2012/03/26/14-ways-to-contribute-to-solr/ -Hoss
