Message-ID: <514A30F8.6070401@exisoft.nl>
Date: 2013-03-20T21:58:16Z
From: Berry Kriesels
Subject: [Rcpp-devel] Rcpp Google summer of code 2013?
In-Reply-To: <20806.22243.714823.273659@max.nulle.part>
On 03/18/2013 12:50 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> On 17 March 2013 at 22:34, Michael Weylandt wrote:
> | There's an active R-GSOC bunch and I'm sure a good Rcpp project would get
> | support that way. Dirk has sponsored GSOC projects in the past so I bet you
> | wouldn't have too much trouble finding a mentor. ;-)
>
> Yep, I was quite involved for three years and even acted as admin one year,
> but I stopped mentoring after GSoC 2011. For one I don't have the bandwidth
> for it (but come to think about, I think I offered to be a back-up mentor for
> some thing using Rcpp but being primairly BioC) and Google also encourages
> rotation of personel so that things don't get stuck in the same rut.
>
> So if someone wants to have a go at a Rcpp-based GSoC project: by all means,
> go for it.
Thank you for your reply Dirk.
If someone would feel tempted to mentor the project I would be more then
willing to show interest as a student!
Berry
>
> | http://rwiki.sciviews.org/doku.php?id=developers:projects:gsoc2013
> | And a mailing list off google groups.
>
> Yup.
>
> And there are of course other organizations too (eg I mentored for R as well
> as within Debian).
>
> Dirk
>