Re: [boost] [GSOC] Are we going to participate?

Subject: Re: [boost] [GSOC] Are we going to participate?
From: Hartmut Kaiser (hartmut.kaiser_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-02-17 18:16:17

> >> Today starts Google Summer of Code.
> >> Is Boost community will become one of the mentoring organizations?
> >>
> >> What project ideas are we proposing? (As for me, I'd love to see
> >> unique_ptr+unique_array implemented using Boost.Move; C++11 features
> >> support for MPL, Fusion, Graph, Bind, Optional; BTree library;
> >> library for getting system info)
> >
> > Andrew was the GSoC administrator for Boost in the previous years but
> > unfortunately has no time this year. So I jump in. I just created the
> > Wiki page <https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/SoC2013> and will
> > send around another email in the coming days. For now I encourage
> > everyone to brainstorm just like Antony did about what you would like
> > to see in Boost. Google didn't invite us last year to participate in
> > the program, and the reason was that we didn't have enough
> > ideas/projects. So feel free to send ideas to this mailing list or add
> them to the Wiki page.
> > For now no idea is too stupid - and even if it is, it might help
> > someone else to get a good idea. :)
> >
> 
> We don't have to volunteer to implement any of these ideas right? :)
> 
> - Hardware graphics (OpenGL/OpenGL|ES/DirectX abstraction)
> - Audio library (OpenAL/FMOD/etc)
> - GUI library
> - Input library (like DirectInput/XInput)
> - Reliable UDP ontop of asio (maybe UDT?)
> - fixed-point math library (binary scaling)
> - spatial indexes (previous gsoc don't know it's status)
> - extension library (previous gsoc don't know it's status)
> - rating system algorithms (elo/TrueSkill)
> - std::packaged_task scheduler (like tbb's, with task stealing)

FWIW, something like this is already part of the HPX library
(https://github.com/STEllAR-GROUP/hpx/).

Regards Hartmut
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> - geometry library (convince the developers to submit eigen3 to boost)
> - physics library (ODE/Havok/PhysX/etc abstraction)
> - json parsing libary
> - relational database library (what ever happened with boost and soci?)
> - document database library (couchdb/mongodb/etc)
> - memcache library (seems to already be a boosty one written by Dean
> Michael Berris)
> - expected<T> (http://tinyurl.com/clv3bsj)
> - approximate string matching
> - trie data structure
> - b-tree data structure
> - radix sort
> - filesystem abstraction + path cleanup
> (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/238103)
> 
> 
> 
> 
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