TO> I could imagine it would help bring forward libraries much faster. I think it TO> would be reasonable that TO> the boost comunity provided TO> 1. project descriptions TO> 2. help and guidelines throughout the 6-12 months of the project TO> If we had small papers explaining potential projects, these can be sent to TO> universities which can the in turn TO> suggest them to their students. TO> Off the top of my head, I can think of these projects TO> 4. An XML parser and generator library I have written a XML parser/DOM constructor while working on my PhD a few years ago (I needed to parse/process 100Mb-500Mb XML files as fast as possible), so one of the main issues was to avoid extra copies of any strings. It can also do SAX style parsing, i.e. process incomplete XML documents and notify the caller about every XML tag. This is somewhat faster if one only needs a few tags from a huge XML document. So far, my parser is used in both, university and commercial environments (I distribute it under boost licence), so this is not a university project any more. It can be compiled by Intel C++ 7, g++ 3, VC++ 6, or higher versions. I have not tried any other compilers. Although it does some XML validation, this is not a proper validating parser, since it was more important to keep it fast and lightweight. It does not support XML namespaces yet, but I have plans to add that. I do not think it is ready for submission to boost yet(not enough comments, the code is not clean enough, and I am going to add a few features/change a few things next month), and I do not know whether anyone wants such a parser in boost. If anyone is interested, I will clean it up, add some features, produce documentation and prepare it for submission/review (hopefully by Christmas). Valentin Samko http://val.samko.info