As part of filling in our application for 2014, we must supply to Google a list of potential GSoC mentors and potential GSoC projects for summer 2014. We do NOT want a repeat of 2012 when our application was rejected due to an insufficiently long list of prospective mentors and projects!
Thanks for the reminder Niall and Boris, and for cultivating intrerest here. I was thinking of two ideas to improve the clarity and robustness of our project list. 1) Remove the question marks (?) from the potential projects and move most of these to the "ideas" section. 2) I could potentially offer to participate as dual-mentor with Vicente on the fixed-point class. Boost really needs to make progress here. And we can still decline to do the project unless the realy, really, really, super candidate knocks on the door. I recall that we failed to find the *right* candidate for this challenging project last year. What do you think about these? Vicente? Anyone else? Cheers, Chris. On Saturday, February 8, 2014 4:16 AM, Niall Douglas <s_sourceforge@nedprod.com> wrote: Dear Boost community, We are now just five days away from the closing date for Google Summer of Code 2014 registration. Last year's GSoC was a huge success, with Google funding work on Boost to the tune of $35,000 and paying over $8,000 in costs for three representatives of Boost to attend the GSoC mentor's summit at Google HQ. As part of filling in our application for 2014, we must supply to Google a list of potential GSoC mentors and potential GSoC projects for summer 2014. We do NOT want a repeat of 2012 when our application was rejected due to an insufficiently long list of prospective mentors and projects! At the time of writing, we have just *eight* prospective mentors, and we need more to be sure of being approved by Google! Therefore, if you think yourself able to mentor a student doing some work on Boost this summer, *please* consider adding a description of the proposed work item and your name to the list at https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/SoC2014. If you want to know more about mentoring a Google Summer of Code funded student work before you nominate yourself, please feel free to ask on the main Boost developers mailing list boost@lists.boost.org. Thank you in advance for your time. Niall Douglas (Boost Google Summer of Code admin) Boris Schäling (Boost Google Summer of Code backup admin) _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost