As you may have noticed from a previous email the R Foundation has been accepted as a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code 2008, see http://code.google.com/soc/2008/ for general information and http://www.r-project.org/SoC08/index.html for our ideas page (which is still evolving a little bit). The R Foundation has not acted as a mentoring organization before, so everything is a little bit experimental for us (some R developers have participated before through other organizations). This email is mainly meant to inform you about the fact that we are in and encourage you to pass on the information to talented students who may want to participate (accepted students get a stipend of USD 4500 from Google when they successfully finish the project). Best, Fritz Leisch
> The R Foundation has not acted as a mentoring organization before, > so everything is a little bit experimental for us . . .Is R-devel an appropriate place for GSoC communication, Fritz? My message specific to Roxygen went unanswered.* ----------- * https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2008-March/048718.html
>> The R Foundation has not acted as a mentoring organization before, >> so everything is a little bit experimental for us . . . > > Is R-devel an appropriate place for GSoC communication, Fritz? My > message specific to Roxygen went unanswered.*Sorry for that, I already asked Manuel (one of my assistants and mentor of the project) to answer your questions, but we are having network problems due to a broken switch in our building and most computers do not work (mine is one of the few exceptions ;-). We hope that everything is up and running again in a few hours. Best, Fritz