Effective August 10th, 2007, Boost became a member project of the Software Freedom Conservancy, http://conservancy.softwarefreedom.org. This means that Boost is now part of a legal entity under US law, and tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the US tax regulations. Although this doesn't have much short-term effect, it lets us move forward with BoostCon 2008 planning with less administrative delay. Long-term, being part of a non-profit organization allows Boost to continue to grow and prosper, and to raise money if that becomes useful. After considering the option of starting our own foundation (a huge amount of work), the Boost moderators decided that joining the Software Freedom Conservancy was a better option. The SFC provides the same legal abilities of a foundation at NO cost to the Boost project. It also minimizes the amount of legal and administrative hassles for project members -- allowing us to stay focused on technical matters rather than tax law. In addition, we are free to leave the SFC and create our own foundation at a later time if we decide that the SFC is not serving us well. Boost is not alone -- some other well known open source projects have also joined the SFC (eg: Samba, Wine). For those interested in the details, see a copy of the legal agreement at svn.boost.org/svn/boost/trunk/more/BoostSponsorshipAgreement.pdf I signed for Boost, since I was the founder and am the owner of the boost.org domain name. Dave Abrahams gets the credit for working out the details of the SFC agreement, with the help of the other moderators. --Beman