This list is NOT intent to be a list of things new committers have to do! It is just a list of on how to get started with OpenMeetings.
To become a committer with full rights is rather easy:
Solve some issues, show some of your patches, be nice 
The official process is to organize a Vote on the mailing list (Example of a successful vote here)
Here are some ideas that new committers can do to get familiar with OpenMeetings:
- Improve the documentation, enhance the wiki, discuss about that in the mailing list.
- Improve the localization (see: http://incubator.apache.org/openmeetings/Internationalisation.html).
- Improve the system integration: OpenMeetings provides a command line interface to install and backup import/export. You could use that command line interface to build Debian/Ubuntu/RedHat/Suse/CentOS/Windows/OSx installers. There is also a pre-build Debian packaging script for creating a .deb package.
- Build a new or improve a plugin or integration. OpenMeetings provides a SOAP/REST interface (http://incubator.apache.org/openmeetings/SoapRestAPI.html) that is the basis for lots of plugins for Moodle, Sakai, ATutor, SugarCRM, Jira, Confluence, Zimbra and a lot more. If you feel like you would like to build your own integration or plugin or improve existing, we are happy to discuss that.
- Enhance existing code, review, provide patches. You are of course also welcome to start directly fixing bugs and providing patches.