Speaking of tools - I think it might be a good idea to describe tools that we use and/or prepare a list of (free) tools that can be used by newbies to work on development and other tasks; so to say, provide them with a welcome wagon.
I used IDLE when I just started; recently switched to PyCharm, love it so far, going to purchase soon.
Store my code on Assembla - preferred it to GitHub because I wanted to keep my repos private. BTW, what was the reason for OpenHatch to be hosted on Gitorious rather than on GitHub or elsewhere?
OpenHatch is a community of people aiming to help newcomers find their way into free software projects. If you like talking about that, please join the conversation!