If you want a project that's not particularly flashy (and so is progressing very slowly) but oh so very necessary, how about seeing if there's anything you can do to get CPAN-testers version 2 off the ground? It's a complete rethink of how CPAN-testers works, moving away from clunky email-based reporting to having reports submitted to a central repository which will allow individual authors much more control over what reports they see.

The current work is co-ordinated via the cpan-testers-discuss mailing list, to subscribe send email to cpan-testers-discuss-subscribe@perl.org.

update: corrected email address for subscribing to the list