100 times this. I want to state for the whole world (even though this thread is a bit dead) that Paul Irish is a really nice dude and the barriers to entry to help are tiny in jquery.

I remember one day just showing up in #jquery on freenode and complaining about some spam on their wiki. 10 minutes of talking later it was "Well, do you want the keys to the kingdom to maintain it?"

I think a big reason jquery was adopted so heavily was not just the tool being useful, but the attitude and the community around it.