[boost] [soc 07] SoC 2007 Projects

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-04-11 22:41:31

Hi All -

I'm happy to announce that Boost will be mentoring 9 Google SoC projects this 
year.  They are:

Title					Student		Mentor
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User-friendly graphs and their measures Andrew Sutton 	Jeremy Siek
FastCGi and SCGI-compatible CGI library Darren Garvey 	Christopher M Kohlhoff
Boost 'Big Integer' proposal 		Arseny Kapoulkine 	Jeff Garland 	
Signal Network library			Stjepan Rajko 	Douglas Gregor 	
Evolutionary Computation Library 	Aaron Garrett 	Jaakko Järvi
Application to extend Boost regex with recursive matching, named 
sub-expressions, and automata-based matching
                                        Hugh Wimberly 	John Maddock
Visualization Of Arrays And STL Containers
                                        Jacob R>Voytko 	Joaquín L. Muñoz
Boost.Extension and Reflection		Mariano G. Consoni 	Hartmut Kaiser
A Generic Geometric Library		Huseyin Akcan 	Herve Bronnimann 	

You can find the abstracts of these projects online here:

http://code.google.com/soc/boost/about.html

As with last year, there were many worthy students and projects that 
ultimately were not selected.  So, for all the students that were not selected 
realize that the competition for a very few slots was immense.  My main advice 
for students that might want to try again next year is to start participating 
now -- it really helps to hang out on the list, submit patches, and work on 
ideas well in advance of SoC.

I'd like to thank the mentoring team that evaluated the ~220 applications we 
received this year.  It takes a huge effort to go thru these, read, rank, 
clarify and give feedback.  Note that in addition to the mentors above Andreas 
Huber, Rene Rivera, and Daniel Wallin all helped with evaluations.

For those coming to BoostCon I'll be giving a presentation on Friday about 
Boost and SoC:

http://www.boostcon.com/program/sessions#garland-summer-of-code

And, if you aren't coming to BoostCon, well, you should ;-)

http://www.boostcon.com/registration

Jeff