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Finding places where CPU use in Mesa can be improved is a great place to start contributing to Mesa. It doesn't require you to know much about how Mesa works to get started, but at the same time you will quickly learn how things fit together as you follow the output from profiling applications.

Also you don't necessarily need to be a super programmer to identify hotspots in the code and try to come up with a way to reduce CPU as I will hopefully show you below.

One common question I’m asked is “How someone I can start contributing to Mesa?”. So I’ve decided to write a post with some information to get any budding Mesa developer on their way to contributing their first patch.

A little over a month ago I ran a small scale experiment to gauge the appetite for funding the improvement of core Linux technologies via crowd funding.