[Soc2006] final evaluations needed; better tracking

[emf]

A.M. Kuchling wrote:

> Any forum that Google sets up for SoC will not attract very many
> people and therefore the odds of getting any questions answered would
> be poor.  The place to ask questions would be on the existing mailing
> lists/newsgroups/IRC channels, where the people with the relevant
> experience *already* hang out.

I mostly was thinking of the PSF's communication with students, rather 
than Google's.

I did use existing channels, though in retrospect I probably should have 
used c.l.py more.

There's a difference, to me, between a channel/list where all the people 
on it are agreed to help out the students and the general cant of OSS 
fora, where underinformed or vague questions are often left to lie (at 
best).

Irrespective of the consensus on the above, it would be nice for 
"communication from the PSF to mentored students" to surpass nothing.

An orientation email from the PSF at the beginning of the projects 
indicating quality lists/newsgroups/irc channels for various python 
matters would be a great start.

~ethan fremen