The Scala project has been selected as a Google Summer of Code [1] mentoring organization. Students, check out our list of project ideas [2] (or come up with your own), post to the mailing lists [3], and start preparing your applications! Instructions on how to get started are on the ideas page [2].
Links:
[1] http://code.google.com/soc
[2] http://www.scala-lang.org/gsoc2010
[3] http://www.scala-lang.org/node/199#scala