Re: [boost] [Boost-users] [gsoc16] An update on GSoC 2016 contingency plans

Subject: Re: [boost] [Boost-users] [gsoc16] An update on GSoC 2016 contingency plans
From: Hartmut Kaiser (hartmut.kaiser_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-03-02 11:41:47

Niall,

> We've been collecting a list of veteran Summer of Code students where
> "veteran" means students whom have previously done a Google Summer of
> Code for Boost. It /may/ be possible for us to acquire enough funding
> from a number of contributors to tide over ongoing GSoC projects this
> summer during our year off from Google funding for veteran students
> only. The stipend to the student would be the same as with Google,
> $5,500. The mentor stipend would likely need to be waived under any
> substitute programme.

That's good news and should keep us going. What other sources of funding
outside of Boost itself do you have in mind?
However, I think that the student stipend from google was $5k only - just
nitpicking. 

Regards Hartmut
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> We would therefore appreciate an update from student and/or mentor as
> to whether they were intending to submit a continuing GSoC this
> summer and would be willing to continue work on their Boost library
> under any funding we find. If we have forgotten any students or
> projects, please get in touch.
> 
> 
> Extant ongoing summer of code projects known to us are (please send
> corrections of any mistakes):
> 
> * Boost Document, mentored by Antony Polukhin.
> https://anuragxel.github.io/boost-document/
> 
> Student: Anurag Ghosh
> 
> Status: Not peer reviewed
> 
> 
> * Boost.Compute, mentored by Kyle Lutz.
> https://boostorg.github.io/compute/
> 
> Student: Jakub Szuppe
> 
> Status: Official Boost library
> 
> 
> * Boost.Hana, mentored by Joel Falcou.
> https://boostorg.github.io/hana/
> 
> Student: Louis Dionne
> 
> Status: Official Boost library
> 
> 
> * Boost.Http, mentored by Bjorn Reese.
> https://boostgsoc14.github.io/boost.http/
> 
> Student: Vinícius dos Santos Oliveira
> 
> Status: One peer review held
> 
> 
> * Boost.Fixed-Point, mentored by Paul Bristow.
> https://github.com/BoostGSoC15/fixed_point
> 
> Student: Nikhar Agrawal
> 
> Status: Not peer reviewed
> 
> 
> 
> We are aware of the following Boost libraries who have strong but
> new-to-Boost potential student candidates in the pipeline for summer
> of code 2016:
> 
> * Boost.odeint, mentored by Karsten Ahnert and Mario Mulansky
> 
> There is even less chance we can find funding for these, but if any
> of the veteran students or mentors has to suddenly pull out before
> the summer, we would substitute one of these projects instead.
> Therefore, if mentors had a really excellent student lined up for
> 2016, please let us know.
> 
> 
> None of the above should be read that summer of code 2016 is going
> ahead. We just need some hard numbers with which to lobby for
> funding. We will get back to the community as soon as we know more.
> 
> We need all this information requested above back BEFORE this weekend
> as we will be making use of the Jacksonville ISO WG21 meeting
> currently happening to grab the right people to ask them for
> donations from their corporate bodies.
> 
> If YOUR corporate org would be willing to help sponsor a summer of
> code student, either partially or in full, PLEASE get in touch.
> Donations to Boost are tax deductible for US taxpayers.
> 
> Thank you all very much in advance!
> 
> Niall
> 
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