I recently wrote up a detailed Google Summer of Code (SoC) proposal relating to translations and the drupal.org infrastructure. I hope some of you who care about translations can read the proposal, provide feedback, and help encourage people to apply for and work on this idea:

"Better translation support for Drupal contributions" http://drupal.org/node/128616

for more info about SoC: http://drupal.org/node/127999

thanks, -derek (dww)