moin, moin,

not all of us are coders or engineers that can directly help improve the
software we use.

There are other ways for us to contribute, though.

I've mentioned on list and at meetings things like helping with
documentation or submitting bug reports.

I really like the first answer in the following interview. She has actually
provided a great service by using her specialty, even though it's a non-geek
specialty.

http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=20031004190519196

Not everyone will get slashdotted on a regular basis :), but it's still a
great example of how there are many ways to help our community.

She mentions giving away copies of Knoppix. That's also a great way to
contribute.

Another way is to consider the t-shirts in our collections. Do we wear
t-shirts advertising some proprietary system that we got at a conference or
do we wear our PLUG and other Free Software t-shirts?

For example, I went to GreekFest over the weekend and stopped by to say hi
to Paul. While ordering Souvlaki one of the guys at the booth asked me about
Linux because of my PLUG t-shirt. Paul's going to get him a copy of Knoppix
and he hopes to attend the InstallFest.

It turns out that he's also a teacher, so if we can show him things like
http://edu.kde.org/ he might be able to use Free Software for his students.

ciao,

der.hans
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