Last year I created a "Tuscany dashboard" [1] intended to help students and new community members to get started with Tuscany. Please use it to your benefit, I hope it helps you learning about open source, Tuscany and SCA.
[1] http://tuscany.apache.org/tuscany-dashboard.html -- Luciano Resende http://people.apache.org/~lresende http://lresende.blogspot.com/
