GSoC Admins, Steering Committee Members,
I’d like to put this on boost.org and cppnow.org this week. Please review the wording and send your comments: Boost has participated in the Google Summer of Code program for a decade. This program allows college students to have a paid summer internship working on open source projects. Because the students that work on Boost libraries tend to stay with the same libraries summer after summer, the continuity of this program is important to Boost and to the students that work on Boost projects. This continuity was threatened this year when Google rejected Boost’s application for GSoC participation. This was not because of the quality of our application (Boost has traditionally been a model GSoC participant), but was the result of a policy of to make room for some new open source projects to participate in GSoC. This is Google’s program and they need to develop policies that are best for their program. But this policy would mean no summer internships for Boost and leave students that have been working on Boost libraries looking for other alternative for the summer of 2016. When IMC Financial Markets learned about this situation, they saw it as an opportunity to support the Boost community and demonstrate their commitment to student development and open source. IMC worked with Boost to create its own “Boost Summer of Code” program, deliberately patterned after Google’s program. IMC also stepped up to underwrite all the costs of this program for the summer of 2016. We thank IMC for their support and community leadership. Thanks. Jon -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Boost Steering Committee" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to boost-steering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
