Hi everybody, Google has accepted the R-Foundation as mentoring organization for the Summer of Code 2009. Jippi! Thus, the idea for the next few days (18.-23.) is that "Would-be student participants discuss application ideas with mentoring organizations" (our collected ideas or their new ideas). Then, from March 23 to April 3, the students apply for projects with their project proposals. Until April 15, all potential mentors discuss, review and rank student proposals, and then Google assigns the number of sponsored projects (slots). In advance: all potential mentors must register at the official GSoC webpage [1] and send an request to the R-Project organization. Best, Manuel. [1] http://socghop.appspot.com/