Hello, I wonder if some of you who may have had experience with Google's Summer of Code program could give me a little direction. I have an idea which projects I will be applying for. But I had a few questions. First of all, do I need to find a mentor who has already been accepted into the program before I apply? Or, is that part of the deciding factor for being accepted (wether or not there is a mentor for the proposed project)? There are a couple of projects listed in the Boost Wiki [http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/cgi-bin/boost_wiki/wiki.pl?Google_Summer...] that I am interested in applying for. I have been using the Boost libraries for a few years now and am anxious for an opportunity to give back. My senior project [http://derrickhathaway.googlepages.com/gsi_mds.tar.gz] is a market data server based upon ASIO and I'm particularly interested in the projects related to that library. I have communicated a little with Michael Dickey who is involved in the development of the Pion Network Library [http://www.pion.org/projects/pion-network-library]. He is also working now with the developers of the C++ Network Library [http://sourceforge.net/projects/cpp-netlib]. This is one of the GSoC projects I will be proposing/applying for. He has been very helpful, but suggested that I inquire of those who may be involved with Google Summer of Code already. Thanks in advance, Derrick