personally, i think the best contributions come from people who have a real personal need or better want to solve a problem, solve it and contribute the solution back to the community.
i think that's why unix and plan 9 exist at all. so i would encourage folks who would like to contribute to find stuff they're intereted in. i also think that it may be a good idea for us to figure out how to help folks who would like to take on projects like this do so outside the framework of gsoc. i'm willing to contribute time to that end. - erik
