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Welcome to the R-SeasonOfDoc wiki, which will be the central hub of information about the R Project participation in the Google Season of Doc. Administrators are Toby Dylan Hocking <[email protected]>, Brian Peterson <[email protected]>, and Vivek Kumar <[email protected]> as a backup. Everyone who wants to participate in Google Season of Doc with R should
- first please read the R-GSoD-FAQ and the Google FAQ so you know how GSoD works,
- then join the low-traffic google group [email protected] (when you sign up, make sure to write your GSoD 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).
We are still updating our policy and further details.
In short, each student selected for a GSoD project will get paid to work on an R package for 3 months post 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 go through the entire project and post a link to your research/further addition to the project 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 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: (Dates have been updated in accordance with the shifted schedule)
| When | What |
|---|---|
| March 23 | Program Annoucement |
| May 11 | List of accepted orgs published |
| July 9 | Student applications due |
| July 31 | Student Project selections due from Org Admins |
| Aug 16 | Technical writing projects announced |
| Aug 17 - Sept 13 | Community bonding period |
| Sept 14 - Nov 30 | Doc development period |
| Nov 30 | Final project submission |
| Dec 3-10 | Mentors submit final evaluations of students |
| Jan 6 | Passing students/projects announced |