Wikimedia Foundation has encouraged the Open Web Analytics project to apply as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code. [Quick explanation of GSoC: http://en.flossmanuals.net/GSoCMentoring/Introduction ]
If OWA is accepted as a GSoC project, college and graduate students can apply for a paid summer internship developing OWA. In preparation, Peter Adams has listed some possible summer projects here:
http://wiki.openwebanalytics.com/index.php?title=GSoC_2011
Please feel free to add your feature requests to that page.
I encourage university and graduate students around the world to consider applying for the MediaWiki or Open Web Analytics GSoC projects. A short guide to applying:
http://www.booki.cc/gsocstudentguide/_v/1.0/why-should-i-apply/
and the MediaWiki project ideas page:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2011
Thanks, Sumana Harihareswara interim Wikimedia volunteer/community development coordinator