Usually you can be helpful by just responding to questions on the mingw-users@lists.sourceforge.org list. Often we have new users who need some guidance with simple tasks like installing properly or proper coding of a program. You can help answer those questions.

Asking for Help

• I can't find the answer to my question here; what can I do now?
  • The MinGW Project runs two mailing lists, to which you are encouraged to subscribe:
    • The MinGW-Users List for questions related to using, installing or configuring the MinGW distributed tool sets; this list is also now the preferred forum for discussion of MSYS issues.