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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>, Vijay Barve <vijay.barve@gmail.com>, Narayani Barve <TODO>. 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 #, 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).

Overview of GSOC

In short, each contributor 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 possible contributors, see the Google FAQ to see if you are eligible as a contributor.
• Possible contributors 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 contributor 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 contributor 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.
• Contributors 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.

Proposed Projects

See: table of proposed coding projects

Status and Timeline

Selected events from the official timeline:

When	What
6 Feb	Org app deadline
21 Feb	Orgs announced; Begin telling potential students about GSOC
2 Apr	Contributor application deadline
24 Apr	Proposal Rankings due
1-26 May	Bonding period
27 May	Coding begins
12 July	Mentors submit Midterm evals
2 Sep	Mentors submit Final evals
11 Nov	Extended deadline final evals due (not recommended)