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