Okay so there are a bunch of issues that have come from various conversations. Perhaps I can clear up what I'm trying to do -- which is come up with a consice plan for SoC and ubercart.

Here are some of my concerns:

1) Deadline and GDO. Gotta get -something- on g.d.o by tomorrow so we can review it.
--Did this so we can submit something Lesley for preliminary approval. Nothing is set in stone.
2) Organizing Project proposals: Now that the proposal is on g.d.o for discussion, we need to discuss it in the open and over there. Edit as needed. Also, it'd be good to create an UBERCART project for ubercart only proposals (which is what I've posted up now) and then MY_PROJECT_HERE for various other projects that ubercart uses but isn't exclusive to. Let revisit what things go in the Ubercart project and what exists as their own outside projects.
3) Drupal Community. This is a biggie. If ubercart wants to get involved with Summer of Code, and wants to do it under the drupal org, it needs to be having these conversations in the g.d.o discussion pages, NOT here.

Per the IRC chat today:
webchick: Have you guys considered submitting a mentor org application for *Ubercart*?
webchick: In some ways I don't like it, because it's only further increasing the divide between Drupal and Ubercart, but on the other hand I'm more than a little apprehensive that any SoC students we allocate to Ubercart projects are going to be "off the grid" for us.
[2:25pm] webchick: And that makes me nervous.
[2:26pm] merlinofchaos: webchick: I would definitely object to 'off the grid' projects
[2:26pm] webchick: japerry: Unless of course they focus on general tools (form saver, XML exporter, etc.) which all Drupal projects could use, including Ubercart.
[2:26pm] webchick: japerry: Yeah. As in on Ubercart forums, not drupal.org issues. Or whatever.
[2:26pm] webchick: That's not really acceptable, at least imo.
[2:27pm] japerry: I REALLY want to see ubercart merge into g.d.o
[2:27pm] webchick: Indeed.
[2:27pm] webchick: That's a huge cultural barrier though it sounds like.
2)

So basically what this means is that the ubercart community needs to become more integrated into d.o before SoC starts, or apply to be its own SoC mentor org. The drupal community, and especially the head up folks like eaton, webchick, etc, etc don't go outside of d.o nomenclature for discussion about drupal modules. They also don't want students working at ubercart.org and being disjointed from the d.o organization.

4) Leadership. We need a clear SoC leader. Whether thats Mike, Ryan, myself, or someone else... but we need someone, and now. This person should be available to answer questions, edit the proposal, mentor students, work on drupal integration, etc.