So you're non-technical person and you've decided to meet some strangers and help them with their free software project, now what? Not all projects were created equal, and you definitely want your own experience to be a positive one. How do projects signal to the world that they're ready for non-technical contributors? Where do you look for these signals? And once you find them how do you make contact and manage the relationship so that the experience is mutually rewarding? Luckily, there are some very concrete ways to separate out projects that would be great to work on and ones that would be, well... challenging. This talk is for both project seekers and for folks who would like their project(s) to become sought after.