Hello Boost, I have been following the boost email lists for a while now and would like to contribute to Boost too. Since it matches at best my experience it would be probably most beneficial if I contribute to a BOOST/FIX library. FIX comes from the "Financial Information eXchange" Protocol and it represents a standard that is used a lot in the Financial Industry. For more information see the related Web Site: http://www.fixtradingcommunity.org. Firstly I would like to ask the community if there is interest in such a library and if anyone is doing any work on it. It seems to me that although there are a lot of firms and institutions in the world providing software or using FIX there are too few open source C++ libraries for that. Secondly I would like to receive feedback on what functionality would be interesting to be part of this library. For instance it could contain: - basic components that can be used to build bigger blocks: e.g.: raw data iterators, message components, field types; - conversion functions from FIX to C++ types and vice versa; - code generators for Messages, Enums, Constants based on XML specification files; - implementations for various FIX Session types: Tag-Value, FAST, FIXP, user defined messages, etc; - transformers which based on some configuration could convert messages automatically between various FIX versions; - message persistence, etc. FIX is very well documented and as such various functionality could be probably easily split into interesting projects that are to be part of the GSoC. Let me know what you think. Thanks, Marius Dobrea