Edouard A. wrote:

For #1 what do you think of

"Our project is everything that should have made it into the C++ STL"

Too cocky?

Too inaccurate, rather.

on Fri Jun 12 2009, joel <joel.falcou-AT-lri.fr> wrote:

David Abrahams wrote:

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Apparently we've been selected as an "alternate finalist" in the SourceForge Community Choice awards!

They want us to answer some questions and provide some supporting material. If anyone else in the community would like to contribute to answering questions 1 and 2 below, that would be awesome Can't access said question :(

on Fri Jun 12 2009, Thorsten Ottosen <thorsten.ottosen-AT-dezide.com> wrote:

David Abrahams skrev:

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Apparently we've been selected as an "alternate finalist" in the SourceForge Community Choice awards!

They want us to answer some questions and provide some supporting material. If anyone else in the community would like to contribute to answering questions 1 and 2 below, that would be awesome.

I cannot read this message. Can you copy it into the message rather than forwarding it?

Weird. GMane had no problem with it: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/190631 Anyway, voilà: ------ Hi! We have just finished tallying the nominations for our fourth annual SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards, and I have some news for you. Your project, Boost C++ Libraries, has been selected as an alternate finalist in Best Tool or Utility for Developers. Being an alternate means that you didn't have enough nominations to be a finalist, but you were really, *really* close. If one of our finalists declines to accept their nomination, we may need you to fill in! This year, we want our voters to know as much as possible about your project...but we need your help! Please respond to this email with the following info before June 17th: 1. Complete this sentence in about 140 characters: "Our project is [-foo-]." For example, "Our project is a tool that helps you wash your car." 2. Complete this sentence, also in about 140 characters: "We should win because [-bar-]." For example, "We should win because we have a strong community and we solve a universal problem." 3. Please provide a logo (or screenshot, if you'd prefer) for your project. It should be at least 640x480, but we'll also be showing it as a thumbnail. 4. This one is optional, but it could make a big difference. We'd like to show our voters a video that introduces them to the core members of your team. Send along the URL (on YouTube) and we'll make sure they see it! 5. In some cases, I'm mailing several people in your community because I don't know who the right person is. If you're not the right person for me to be dealing with, please let me know. I certainly don't want to be irritating. 6. Our finalists are usually pretty interesting people. Are you willing to be contacted by our public relations team about interviews with the press? Thanks in advance for your responses. It's very important that we receive this information by June 17th - we'll be kicking off the final vote on the 22nd, and we have to have time to put everything together. Congratulations on having such a dedicated community, and best of luck! Ross Turk Director of Community, SourceForge ---------- -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com