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January 2016

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[gsoc16] Attn: We need 2016 mentors and project ideas for Boost!
by Niall Douglas 18 Jan '16

18 Jan '16

Dear Boost community, We are now within one month of the beginning of Google Summer of Code 2016! Last year's GSoC was a particularly momentus one as we witnessed the approval by the community for Boost.Hana to enter Boost - congratulations to Louis and his mentor Joel for bringing to Boost a very exciting new C++ library which pushes C++ compilers to their limits. We have also seen greatly improved retention of GSoC students in the community thanks to the improved student selection procedures introduced last year, and the fresh blood brought into Boost has been very evident on the mailing list this year. As part of filling in our application for 2016, we must supply to Google a list of potential GSoC mentors and potential GSoC projects for summer 2016 in order to be approved as an organisation this year. Therefore a lengthy page of awesome project ideas at https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/SoC2016 before *February 8th* would be an enormous help to getting us approved again this year and bringing to Boost another US$35,000 of Google funding. If you think yourself able to mentor a student doing some work on Boost this summer, *please* consider adding a description of the proposed work item and your name to the list. Last year we had more slots awarded to us by Google than we had good combinations of student and mentor, so we had to return slots which I believe has not happened here at Boost GSoC in at least a decade. That means that your project ideas have a better chance than ever of receiving funding if you can find a good student, and that is best done by getting project ideas floated *early*. If you want to know more about mentoring a Google Summer of Code funded student work before you nominate yourself, please feel free to ask on the main Boost developers mailing list boost(a)lists.boost.org or via gsoc-admin(a)boost.org. Thank you in advance for your time. --- Boost C++ Libraries Google Summer of Code 2016 admin https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/SoC2016

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[boost][review][qvm] QVM formal review result
by Adam Wulkiewicz 04 Jan '16

04 Jan '16

Dear Boost community, The review period for Emil Dotchevski's QVM library has concluded. I'd like to thank everyone who participated in the discussions, esspecially those who sent formal reviews. Only four votes were casted however more people commented on issues on the mailing list. Comments received during the course of the review were generally positive, with a number of technical issues identified that need to be addressed. The review identified no fundamental problems in the design or implementation of the library that would entail rejection. The final version of the library can be fully accepted once Emil has addressed the issues identified during the review. Therefore I'm happy to say: Emil Dotchevski's Boost.QVM library is CONDITIONALLY ACCEPTED. Full report can be found here: http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2016/01/227027.php Regards, Adam

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