Open source is a wonderful thing. Probably my favorite part about it is that everyone who uses open source software can find ways to help improve it. So, what can you do to help WordPress grow? Weblog Tools Collection did a great job recently when they tackled this exact question in their post 24 Ways to Contribute to WordPress.
The first three things that come to mind when I think of contributing to WordPress are creating WordPress themes, creating WordPress plugins, or creating a WordPress blog to help the community. If you’d like to see the other 21, click over to check out the list.
Kyle Eslick
Kyle Eslick is WordPress enthusiast who took his passion for WordPress to the next level back in 2007 by launching WPHacks.com as a place to share hacks and review WordPress-related products.
Sorry but when i try to visit the "Facebook Page Themes" URL my antivirus blocked the URL saying that a ...
Useful stuff, but I have to say that these days we just build complete themes in a few minutes in ...
These are all reasons why I have my blog on Wordpress. I really like how versatile it is and ...
Hi Kyle,
I had the exact problem you stated, my author archive went to
/author/Jordan%20Godbey
and my nicename in the database was "Jordan ...
Liked the "SimpleWP Theme". Neat and clean. Over all good collection of themes. 
The new download link for the wordpress help sheet:
http://wpcandy.s3.amazonaws.com/resources/WordPress-Help-Sheet.pdf 
Thanks for linking to the article Kyle. I tried to illustrate the fact that you don’t have to know the code in order to contribute to the project. Which is a good thing considering I’m not a coder