So, now that GSoC is getting started, I decided to send some emails to collaborators at universities in the UK and Switzerland to spread the word about GSoC so that we maximize our chances of getting some top C++ programmers. I’m pasting info and links into emails and I’m struck by this page
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/?sp-page=5 where all the organisations are listed. The “Ste||ar” group logo just says “STE||AR Group, Shaping a Scalable Future” Could we change this to “The C++ Standards Library for Concurrency and Parallelism” or something a little bit more deacriptive? I realize that some collaborators do other stuff, but frankly, no student is going to click on our logo when there are so many other much more sexy descriptions like “Numerical computational package and high-level programming language” “Mobile Robot Programming Toolkit: empowering C++ development in robotics” “An open source Global Navigation Satellite Systems software-defined receiver” “A modern open source rendering engine for animation and visual effects” I just picked 4 at random. They are all better than ours. I know it’s trivial, but … JB -- John Biddiscombe, email:biddisco @.at.@ cscs.ch http://www.cscs.ch/ CSCS, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre | Tel: +41 (91) 610.82.07 Via Trevano 131, 6900 Lugano, Switzerland | Fax: +41 (91) 610.82.82
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