Hi asdmin,
Anyone is able to help out with development, there is really no minimum skill requirement. It would be good to have some more contributers, there are plenty of very worthwhile features we could add.
The IRC channel #ufo:ai on the freenode server is where you can get instant feedback about ideas, features, coding etc. If you want to add a feature or fix something, we are very happy to accept/review any patches (you can post patches on the sourceforge tracker or even just "pastebin" them and let us know).