Update: Pushes to contributed modules and sandboxes are once again possible, thanks to the work of Sam Boyer and Damien Tournoud. Go forth and contribute!
In this guest post, Itamar Burstein shares his thoughts about "Open source" - the culture that Drupal belongs to - as seen through the eyes of an Industrial designer.
Most of the drupal.org infrastructure is currently running on Drupal 6. Drupal 7 has been out for soon three years and the work on upgrading our community home to it has gone on for almost a year now.
Software is expensive because it is irrational and difficult to build. More than 70 years of mostly-failed software projects evidence this fact. Face it, and your chances for success will dramatically improve.