On 20 February 2009 at 12:06, Friedrich Leisch wrote: | >>>>> On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:52:19 -0600, | >>>>> Dirk Eddelbuettel (DE) wrote: | | > [ Cool how nobody cared about Fritz' request not to post ideas yet :) ] | | Well, I kind of expected that ;-) | | See also below. | | > [ I broadly share Oleg's "wouldn't it be nice to have better plot devices" | > wish. But I don't think it is a three-month summer target, | | Yes, that's exactly what came to my mind first: As usual, please do | read docs before you post ... in this case the format of SOC (I | included the link in my original email, googling for "summer of code" | will also take you there): a student is paid to code three months for | us, the 3 months inlcude writing documentation. The student will not | be an expert in R internals, and no magic wizard. The student should | familiarize himself with the project before the actual coding period, | but there is only so much you can do in limited time. I think you can | expect a similar amount of code as in a master/diploma thesis (but | NOT a dissertation). | | If you had waited for Manuels email you would also have learned about | another VERY IMPORTANT POINT: The collection of ideas for summer of | code is not like writing a list of wishes to Santa Claus (or the | Christkind or whatever your local variation may be): we only need | ideas which YOU ARE WILLING TO MENTOR, i.e., you write the specs for | the project, communicate with students interested in the project, | select the best applicant and supervise the student during the coding | period. I am not sure everyone on this thread is aware about this (if | all of you were I apologize). If you propose an idea, you | simultaneously agree to volunteer a considerable amount of your own | time. But that time can really be worth the effort (otherwise we | wouldn't be doing it).
I am not sure if you're lecturing just to me or the audience at large; if it just me allow me to remind you that I mentored last year and helped to bring a project from proposal to inclusion onto CRAN and into user's hands. In fact, I mentored another one (on cran source to deb package automation) at Debian as well. So yes, I am in fact fully aware of most of these points. I would at this point also like to correct something you said in the earlier mail where you said that may get "four to six slots". I am doubtful about that. O verall number of GSoC slots are _down_ as per Leslie. We have no priors on whether more or less organisations are admitted or not. If I were a betting man, I'd say three to four slots. So let's make them count. Dirk -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel