On 3/25/2011 5:44 PM, Laura Creighton wrote:
The other side of the proposed forum is people who want to teach such
people.  Many of them (and no doubt many of the learners) don't read
python-list due to its high volume.

Indeed.  I see 76000+ unread messages on Python-list since I subscribed 2.5 years ago.  I search it when I have a Python question, that is not immediately answerable by reading docs... issues of style mostly.  But that is mostly about how to use Python, not about how to contribute.  And I don't have time to read it all.  I wonder if anyone reads it all, and gets anything else done in life.