Things that would help perl and the community, in no particular order, additionally to what you already do:

• Answer questions from beginners, here or in IRC, mailing lists, newsgroups, ...
• Walk through the perl rt and look at old tickets. Some of them have been fixed but not yet closed; close those (or notify p5p that they should be closed)
• For errors with unknown source, bisect to find the responsible change
• Raise funds for perl 5 development
• The p5p plans to move to git as revision control system; that movement needs to be managed and supported by a few people with system administrator skills.
• Smoke-test both perl and cpan modules
• If you run on linux or *BSD, help your distributor to build and maintain perl packages. If you use windows, you can help the Strawberry Perl people, or even activestate (if they want help)
• The perl foundation occasionally looks for people who support them with their paperworks, watch their blog and volunteer if you feel qualified

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