"Jeff Garland" <jeff@crystalclearsoftware.com> writes:
On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 23:22:51 +0200, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote
Hello,
Google has just announced that there will be a Summer of Code program this year. More information can be found here:
I'm posting this message in the hope that Boost joins as a mentoring organization. I think this was discussed the last year, but it was not on the final organizations list.
I think we were a little late getting orginzied on this -- we found out about it after the list of mentoring organizations were already closed.
Anyway, at least one of the mail threads started here:
http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2005/05/87606.php
The goal could be to develop one of the "missing" libraries (those described in the Wiki,
Perhaps the unicode char/string support would be something that is doable if mentored appropriately.
I worry that most C++ libraries of any real importance require a level of experience that most students, even with an experienced Boost mentor to guide them, do not have. I also get the impression that the pool of students interested in developing C++ libraries will be rather limited, in part because of the way CS is taught these days. That said, we have a great many infrastructure projects that would be interesting and incredibly useful to have done -- documentation tools, website redesign, work on the build system, etc. -- and IMO some of these are likely to have a broader resonance. Maybe we should propose both kinds of project? -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com