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Welcome to the gsoc2015 wiki, which will be the central hub of information about the R Project participation in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) for 2015. Administrators are Toby Dylan Hocking, Brian Peterson, and Virgilio Gomez Rubio as a backup. Questions should be posed to the google group [email protected]! Everyone who wants to participate in Google Summer of Code with R should join the low-traffic google group.

Overview of GSOC

In short, each student will get paid $5000 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 and see if any project interests them. If so, email the project mentors to express your interest, and describe any prior experience. Students with ideas for R projects not listed below are encouraged to post a query on the gsoc-r google group.
• Students will submit project applications directly to Google Melange.
• 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 $5000.
• Mentors get code written for their project, but no money.

Status and Timeline

When	Who	What
9 Feb 2015	Admins	Org applications begin.
20 Feb 2015	Admins	Org applications end.
9 Mar 2015	Mentors	Please finish posting project ideas!
16 Mar 2015	Students	Project applications begin.
27 Mar 2015	Students	Project applications end.
13 Apr 2015	Admins	Deadline for requesting student project slots in melange.
24 Apr 2015	Admins	19:00 UTC IRC #gsoc deduplication meeting.
25 Apr 2015	Students	Begin coding.
26 June 2015	Students/Mentors	Mid-term evals begin.
3 July 2015	Students/Mentors	Mid-term evals end, student payments.
17 Aug 2015	Students	Soft pencils down.
22 Aug 2015	Students	Hard pencils down, final evals begin.
28 Aug 2015	Students/Mentors	Final evals end, student code submission begin.
25 Sept 2015	Students	Soft deadline for student code submission.
24-25 Oct 2015	Admins/Mentors	Mentor summit.

Previous GSOC ideas and projects

2015 is the first GSOC for which will use GitHub to organize the R project participation in GSOC. Previously we used http://rwiki.sciviews.org but now it is down.

• 2014 was on the RWiki which no longer works and was never backed up by the wayback machine, but we have backup copies in this GitHub repos and the info on Google Melange.
• 2013 is on the wayback machine,
• 2012 is on the wayback machine,
• 2011 on CRAN.