Dear all, I am Ruoyun Jing, a student of GSoC17 worked for Boost.Geometry. Thank all in Boost C++ Libraries during my Google Summer of Code, especially thank to all the mentors. I am willing to contribute to Boost after GSoC and try to make everything better in the future. I wish you all the best! :) Regards, Ruoyun Jing On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 12:22 AM, Niall Douglas via Boost < boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:
Dear all,
Google Summer of Code 2017 has ended with another successful summer of student coding with probably the highest calibre year we've ever seen. After four years as lead admin for Boost Summer of Code, my time has come to an end. I'll be making way for David Bellot, long time mentor at Boost GSoC and maintainer of Boost.uBLAS. Please join me in welcoming David as new lead admin. I'll be staying on as backup admin next summer to help David settle in.
My time as Boost Summer of Code admin has certainly been eventful with lots of surprises, ups and downs. The fact these surprises did not turn into crises is due in large part to a few people in particular who went far beyond the call of duty:
* Jon Kalb, who went to bat for the students repeatedly in multiple venues and finding tens of thousands of dollars when it was needed.
* Boris Schäling, whom I replaced as lead admin and who acted as backup admin for some years, who also managed to arrange tens of thousands of dollars of sponsorship when it was needed most.
* Bryce Adelstein Lelbach, for acting as backup admin these past few years.
* Andrew Sutton, the lead GSoC admin before Boris, who gave such detailed and useful early advice and materials on how to best navigate the treacherous waters of Google Summer of Code!
And finally to all the mentors who so generously volunteered their time, and to the students every single one of whom successfully finished their projects in my time as admin despite problems with sickness, deaths in close family etc. Some of those students have gone on to become mainstays of the C++ conference circuit, famous names in their own right. I'm sure they would have been so without Google Summer of Code, but I'd like to think that it helped bring them to Boost rather than them getting into C++ via elsewhere. Thank you students!
Regards, Niall
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