Did you feel that you spent too much time cutting code?
And/or too little producing documentation, examples and other things that would 'sell' the project and get enough users with experience enough to get to a review?
I suspect that any projects have far, far to big ambitions, when what we probably most want out of a project is a *finished* job.
well, a boost libray is not `finished' when coding/documentation is done, but when the actual code becomes part of boost. so even if a student has the ambition of finishing coding/documentation/examples/benchmarks, the work is easily lost. but maybe it would be a good project to finish a library from earlier years, including the review at the end of the gsoc period (maybe with the mentor as review manager). tim