I think we should work on creating a study path for new members, who will first put in their first pull request. Then how they can progress into multiple PRs to putting a PR to a much larger Open source project. Then getting a GSOC project. This would be a good path way to build talent.
Actually, it is what is happening even right now. If we take a look at the team so far everyone started by sending a PR to the sef site and then to scholarX to GSoC. All We have to do is make it more structural.