Olha aqui um tópico excelente para o nosso show and sharea 3a parte dos seminários:

Google Summer of Code 2011

http://rwiki.sciviews.org/doku.php?id=developers:projects:gsoc2011

GSoC is only open to students (from undergrads to Ph.D. students).
If accepted, the student is paid U$ 5000 for working on a R project during the 

summer  and all the R code produced will be provided as
a R package available from CRAN later on.