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Welcome to the R-GSOC wiki, which will be the central hub of information about the R Project participation in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC). Administrators are Toby Dylan Hocking <toby.hocking@r-project.org>, Brian Peterson <brian.peterson@r-project.org>. Everyone who wants to participate in Google Summer of Code with R should
- first please read the R-GSOC-FAQ and the Google FAQ so you know how GSOC works,
- then join the low-traffic google group gsoc-r@googlegroups.com (when you sign up, make sure to write your GSOC project idea in the text box “You can send additional information to the manager by filling in the text box below” – we have a policy of rejecting applicants who leave it blank).
In short, each student selected for a GSoC project will get paid to work on an R package for 10 weeks during the summer:
- Mentors can add projects to give ideas to students.
- Students should look at the list of projects to see if any project interests them. Before emailing project mentors, please do at least one project Test and post a link to your solution on the proposal’s wiki page. Then email the project mentors to express your interest, and describe any prior experience.
- After opening communication with project mentors, each student must write an application with a detailed timeline, following our application template. Successful applications are shared with mentors for feedback before submission of a final application on Google.
- Google will award a certain number of student slots to the R project.
- The GSOC-R administrators and mentors will rank projects in order of application quality and importance to the R project, and the top projects will be funded.
- Students get paid a stipend by Google for writing free/open-source R packages for 10 weeks during the summer.
- Mentors get code written for their project, but no money.
See: table of proposed coding projects
Selected events from the official timeline: (TODO)
| When | What |
|---|---|
| Jan 29 | Mentoring organizations can begin submitting applications to Google |
| Feb 19 | Org app deadline |
| Apr 13 | Student applications due |
| May 3 | Student slot requests due from Org Admins |
| May 13 | Student Project selections due from Org Admins |
| May 17 | Accepted students/projects announced |
| May 17 - June 7 | Community bonding period |
| June 7 - Aug 23 | Student coding period |
| July 16 | Phase 1 evals due |
| Aug 23 | Students submit project along with final evaluation of their mentor(s) |
| Aug 30 | Mentors submit final evaluations of students |