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[Rcpp-devel] Rcpp Google summer of code 2013?

4 messages · R. Michael Weylandt, Dirk Eddelbuettel, Berry Kriesels

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Hi everybody involved with Rcpp,

My apologies up front if this is offtopic for this mailinglist. I felt 
it was okay, but please let me know if it isn't.

I was just wondering. Will Rcpp be a participating as a project in this 
years GsoC? For those of you who haven't heard of it before: 
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013

I absolutely love the package and all the work you volunteers have 
poured into it. Actually my current MSc thesis (on polyploid genetic 
mapping and QTL analysis) heavily depends on it. So let this e-mail also 
be a word of appreciation ;)

With kind regards,

Berry Kriesels
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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. ;-)

http://rwiki.sciviews.org/doku.php?id=developers:projects:gsoc2013
And a mailing list off google groups. 

Cheers, Michael (former GSOC student)
On Mar 17, 2013, at 22:29, Berry Kriesels <berry at exisoft.nl> wrote:

            
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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.
 
| 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
2 days later
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On 03/18/2013 12:50 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
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