There’s an essay up at Freshmeat by David Burley from Marblehorse that’s a result of a comment that I made in response to a previous essay, Jacob Moorman’s "The Importance of Non-Developer Supporters in Free Software." Burley’s essay, "Inroads to Free Software Development," is about the challenges of non-developers getting involved with free software. Although I may be a developer (PHP and other web-related languages), I really don’t have any C or Perl (or Python, or Java, or Tcl, etc.) skills that are useful for creating applications. So I see, for now, that my role in free software must be limited to non-technical assistance. But how in the world do I get into these projects? Well, David Burley helps answer that question in his piece. Give it a read.