Hi,
I am posting after a discussion with xjm on #drupal-contribute.
First, I am really sorry and shocked at the same time that Drupal was not selected as a mentoring organisation this year. I am sure Drupal will be back with a bang the next year.
This discussion was to highlight that the student developers who came to the Drupal Forums looking for prospective projects need not be disappointed. There are drupal projects offered by Sigmah and Fedora this year where the student developers can contribute over the summers under the GSoC umbrella.
I am a Google Summer of Code Mentor at Sigmah, so I would like to highlight the one drupal project we offer this year.
The project is mentioned on our ideas page at : https://code.google.com/p/sigma-h/wiki/Ideas4GSoC2013
(Project Idea #4)
and the feature request around which the project revolves can be found here : http://www.sigmah.org/issues/view.php?id=469
We are looking forward to work over the summers with some great drupal ninjas from the Drupal Community.
And we are really grateful to the Drupal Community to let us post about our project here.
And we are open to any inputs from the Drupal Community that they think will help us.
We will contribute the project back to the Drupal Community for sure after the summers.