New to Kinect? Start here!!

The OpenKinect wiki

http://openkinect.org/wiki/Main_Page - contains tons of information for new Kinect users who want to explore the project and for developers alike.

How can I install libfreenect, where is the walkthrough?

http://openkinect.org/wiki/Getting_Started

How can I ask for help on list and in the channel? I'm getting this error message ... ?
http://openkinect.org/wiki/FAQ

Who is involved with the project?
http://openkinect.org/wiki/People

How should I get started to contribute code to the project and which wrapper?
http://openkinect.org/wiki/Contributing_Code
http://openkinect.org/wiki/Main_Page#Wrappers

How does the Kinect USB protocol works? Image size? 0x0002 @ 0x001a does what?
http://openkinect.org/wiki/Protocol_Documentation
http://openkinect.org/wiki/Main_Page#Knowledge_base

Under which licenses is libfreenect released?
http://openkinect.org/wiki/Policies#License

What have people been doing with the Kinect, what demos, what's the project roadmap?
http://openkinect.org/wiki/Gallery
http://openkinect.org/wiki/Roadmap

And what about that laser illuminator there?
http://openkinect.org/wiki/Hardware_info

You have an idea?
http://openkinect.org/wiki/Project_ideas

How did the project start?
http://openkinect.org/wiki/History

Other issues?

And group mailing list openkinect@googlegroups.com is also a great resource to search for posts on a specific subject.

See also https://github.com/OpenKinect/libfreenect/issues and https://github.com/OpenKinect/libfreenect/pulls and
https://github.com/OpenKinect/libfreenect/tree/unstable and the irc channel for more info on what the developers have been working on.

( Borrowed from OpenKinect mailing list : credits go to bankP (bank.panic@gmail.com))