<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Dear Boost community,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">once again this year, we will apply to be a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code 2018. Our organization has been quite succesful for the last decade and this year we hope to be selected again.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">As part of filling in our application for 2018, we must supply to </span><span class="gmail-il" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Google </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">a list of potential GSoC mentors and potential GSoC projects for </span><span class="gmail-il" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">summer </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">2018 in order to be approved as an organisation this year.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Therefore a </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">lengthy page of awesome project ideas at </span><a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/SoC2018">https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/SoC2018</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> before *January 23rd* </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">would be an enormous help to getting us approved again this year and </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">bringing to Boost another </span><span class="gmail-il" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Google</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> funding (worth dozens of thousands of dollars on average).</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size:12.8px">If you think yourself able to mentor a student doing some work on Boost </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">this </span><span class="gmail-il" style="font-size:12.8px">summer</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">, *please* consider adding a description of the proposed work </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">item and your name to the list. </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">If you want to have a better chance receiving funding for your project ideas, it is better to find good students early </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">and that is best done by getting project ideas floated </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">*early*.</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size:12.8px">If you want to know more about mentoring a </span><span class="gmail-il" style="font-size:12.8px">Google</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span><span class="gmail-il" style="font-size:12.8px">Summer</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> of Code funded </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">student work before you nominate yourself, please feel free to ask on </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">the main Boost developers mailing list </span><a href="mailto:boost@lists.boost.org" style="font-size:12.8px">boost@lists.boost.org</a><span style="font-size:12.8px"> or via </span><a href="mailto:gsoc-admin@boost.org" style="font-size:12.8px">gsoc-admin@boost.org</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">. Thank you in advance for your time.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Finally, I would like to thank </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">Niall Douglas, </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">our previous Boost admnistrator for GSoC, who did an awesome work during many years and helped the Boost community grow thanks to all the funding we received years after years from Google.</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Best regards,</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size:12.8px">David</span></div></div>