Hi everyone! My name is Gail and I just joined the mailing list. I'm very interested in Google's Summer of Code program and am hoping to participate for the first time this year. I came across Boost when I needed a platform-independent means of threading for my honors project, and realized afterward that there were several Boost projects in last year's SoC! A bit about me: I'm in my last semester of Computer Science at Carleton University in Ottawa, ON, Canada. I have strong interests in computer vision/graphics/computational geometry. In fact, I will be beginning my Masters of Computer Science in this area in September. This will be at Carleton University as well since the school has the largest computational geometry group in North America, or so I'm told :) I have some interesting industry experience at Ross Video (they make live video production switchers) and Corel (I worked on CorelDRAW, software I've known and loved since I was a kid). I hope that I've come to the right place to find out more about Boost and its relation to SoC, and would love to try and find out what kind of development is most desired for SoC. I noticed that last year's project ideas included some computational geometry libraries - anything in this area would be a real treat for me to work on! Looking forward to talking with you, Gail
Gail Banaszkiewicz wrote:
Hi everyone!
Welcome!
My name is Gail and I just joined the mailing list. I'm very interested in Google's Summer of Code program and am hoping to participate for the first time this year.
I hope that I've come to the right place to find out more about Boost and its relation to SoC,
You have -- we should be making a more official announcement shortly, but since you already have a project idea I would suggest you go ahead and pursue it. If it's anything like last year the application process is highly competitive -- the best applications really went above and beyond. I think some of those might be on the web somewhere.
I noticed that last year's project ideas included some computational geometry libraries - anything in this area would be a real treat for me to work on!
There project has not been pursued yet, so it would likely be a good choice for this year. Our biggest problem might be finding a mentor, but we'll work something out. Jeff
On 3/2/07, Jeff Garland <jeff@crystalclearsoftware.com> wrote:
Gail Banaszkiewicz wrote:
Hi everyone!
Welcome!
My name is Gail and I just joined the mailing list. I'm very interested in Google's Summer of Code program and am hoping to participate for the first time this year.
I hope that I've come to the right place to find out more about Boost and its relation to SoC,
You have -- we should be making a more official announcement shortly, but since you already have a project idea I would suggest you go ahead and pursue it. If it's anything like last year the application process is highly competitive -- the best applications really went above and beyond. I think some of those might be on the web somewhere.
Yup, they are: http://code.google.com/soc/ Look up for boost. Gail, the SoC is really a great organization, try your best to get in, it is going to be very fun. I won't be able to participate this year (I'm working for a google competitor), but I wish well to all this year students. gpd
Gail Banaszkiewicz wrote:
Hi everyone!
Hi Gail,
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This will be at Carleton University as well since the school has the largest computational geometry group in North America, or so I'm told :)
You are most than welcome to boost! OTOH, if your interests are computational geometry and open source projects, you should definitely check out CGAL (if you haven't done so already): http://www.cgal.org/opensource.html Best regards -- ------ Fernando Cacciola SciSoft http://certuscode.wordpress.com http://fcacciola.50webs.com http://fcacciola.wordpress.com
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