In response to Shane Miller's query about how to get us neophites going, here are some of the problems I ran across.
I'm from the windows world, and am used to using Delphi. as such it's really weird trying to debug this stuff with the gnu debugger. I've used DDD on linux, but I was aiming for a windows development. I then tried compiling it in Delphi, thinking that FPC was a Delphi compatiable compiler, the code produced for it would be compatible as well, and then I would be able to debug it, and contribute no problem...(sigh, I'm soo naive). I'm not really sure where to go from here, I would like to contribute to a worthwhile project, but the windows compile has a long ways to go, (maybe an outline of how to bring the windows up to spec with linux).
I also noticed that there was a cross platform gui library released 2 days ago, wxWindows http://wesley.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~wxxt/ which looks to me like it might be half the work that is required already done. I don't want to faction this group anymore then it is, but if something like this can cut the amount of work needed it might be worth looking into.
Chris Bruner