So, the projects are participating in the Google Summer of Code for the 2012 season. (While Libav is the project officially accepted to particular, I still refer to the projects because FFmpeg will also benefit).

Here are the students, projects, and mentors for this summer:

1. Andrew D’Addesio is working on an Opus Decoder, mentored by Justin Ruggles
2. Guillaume Martres is working on an HEVC video decoder, mentored by Mashiat Sarker Shakkhar
3. Jan Ekström is working on an LGPL Ut Video encoder, mentored by Kostya Shishkov
4. Jordi Ortiz is working to rewrite avserver, mentored by Luca Barbato
5. Samuel Pitoiset is working on an RTMP[E|S|T|TE] protocol implementation, mentored by Martin Storsjö

Wish them luck– these are some ambitious projects.