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Welcome to the gsoc2016 wiki, which will be the central hub of information about the R Project participation in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) for 2016. Administrators are Toby Dylan Hocking, Brian Peterson, and Virgilio Gomez Rubio as a backup. Everyone who wants to participate in Google Summer of Code with R should join the low-traffic google group [email protected] (when you sign up, make sure to write the project name in the Reason field – we will reject all applicants who leave the Reason field blank). Please read the R-GSOC-FAQ and the Google FAQ before posting questions to the google group!
In short, each student will get paid $5500 to work on an R package for 3 months 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 getting approval from the project mentors, each student should write an application with a detailed timeline, following our application template. Students should send their application to their mentors for proofreading before submitting it to 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 importance to the R project, and the top projects will be funded.
- Students get paid $5500 for writing free/open-source R packages for 3 months 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:
| Date | Who | Event |
|---|---|---|
| 8 Feb 2016 | Admins | Org applications start |
| 19 Feb 2016 | Admins | Org applications end |
| 1 Mar 2016 | Mentors | Soft deadline for proposals |
| 14 Mar 2016 | Students | Project applications start |
| 25 Mar 2016 | Students | Project applications end |
| 23 May 2016 | Students | Begin coding |
| 20 June 2016 | Students/Mentors | Mid-term eval start |
| 27 June 2016 | Students/Mentors | Mid-term eval end |
| 15 Aug 2016 | Students | Soft pencils down |
| 22 Aug 2016 | Students/Mentors | Hard pencils down, final eval start |
| 29 Aug 2016 | Students/Mentors | Final eval end, submit code |
2016 is the second GSOC for which will use GitHub to organize the R project participation in GSOC. Organization info for previous years can be found on the RGSOC2015 wiki.