I saw Paul Tagliamonte's post to the debian-devel-announce list. I'd be interested in assisting with this project. I wrote some ctypes Python code that interacted with a Windows DLL. I ran into a lot of String encoding situations with that. This would be my first time as a contributor to Debian, but I'd love to be of service. I've joined this list, so let me know where to start with contributing.
Thanks,
Bryan Shook