On the other hand, i was discussing a gsoc project on Debian since last year (was very excited about it), and guess what, Debian was not accepted as a gsoc organization for this year, nice...
edit-> i'm a student and gsoc's stipend would help me a lot.
I'd say I am very happy for every project they accepted. It's obvious they have limits on how many and how different organizations they can accept and it's not fun job to tell those who got declined that they should try next year.
I don't know what the timeline for GSoC is so maybe it's too late, but Haiku (BeOS-inspired/compatible open source OS <www.haiku-os.org>) was accepted again this year and might be of interest to you.
edit-> i'm a student and gsoc's stipend would help me a lot.