Step 1: Start using open source alternatives of proprietary software in Windows system. e.g. Firefox for browsing, Eudora or Thunderbird for email client, Gaim ( now called as Pidgin ) for any kind of chatting, Openoffice for office applications, VLC for playing any multimedia files, etc.
Step 2: If you have internet connection, install Ubuntu latest ( dual boot with Windows). If not, then start with OpenSuse. Try doing the basic things that you did in Windows system earlier.
Step 3: Once you are comfortable with using Ubuntu or any other user-friendly linux, then you can move to a more advanced linux. This step is very crucial. You should go for advanced distro only when you feel it from inside, only when you have enough confidence to read configuration files, read error logs, analyse them, and to be able to compile from source code.
Step 4: Start the project named : Linux from Scratch. Even if you don't understand all the steps, do not worry. Just walk through that path. This way you would be able to create your own custom linux distribution. You will now have enough idea of how linux works, what are major softwares, and what is missing.
Step 5: Start contributing. This can be done right from step 1. But if you are short of ideas, i am sure that after completing first 4 steps, you will be full of ideas. If you find that you idea is already being implemented in some project, then join that project instead of creating a new one.
That is all i know right now. I may edit this blog if find something more.
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