I still haven't been able to establish a technical mentor for my SoU project. I need a Drupal developer with a fair amount of Drupal karma and a small interest in usability, for this project to be successful. I'll be plain; I'm directly asking Dries, core developers, and other similarly-respected folk in the Drupal community, for someone who can commit about 3 hours per week for three months. This is a sizable contribution to Drupal and will result in considerable usability improvements.
Please see details on CivicActions blog for details. I also posted the original request on g.d.o and the developers list.
Thanks to CivicActions for co-sponsoring this project and to OpenUsability who are making this possible through the Season of Usability initiative.