Boost Google Summer of Code 2016

Welcome to the Boost C++ Libraries' home page for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2016. This page provides information about suggested student projects, proposal submission templates, advice on writing good proposals, and links to information on getting started writing with Boost.

Quick summary of policies and processes for this year

After two extremely successful years of GSoC at Boost during which even some of the old timers have been wowed by the C++ code some of the students have brought us, we are minded to keep in place the more rigorous candidate selection process which involves preferentially selecting over all others every GSoC Boost candidate who takes a C++ programming aptitude test or provides links to at least 1,000 lines (excluding comments and whitespace) non-coursework C++ library (not application nor solution) open source code. Note if following the second route, code should have been open sourced at least three months ago, and show a log of commits improving the library over time.

Students should review the list of ideas from previous GSoCs and the archives of the Boost developer's mailing list relating to GSoC (tip: try searching boost-dev for subjects tagged [gsoc16] or [gsoc15] etc). After reading other posts tagged [gsoc16], they should write a well researched message with [gsoc16] somewhere in the subject line to that developer's mailing list seeking a mentor, and be as flexible as possible in finding a topic that both they and the mentor is interested in upon which to base a GSoC project proposal text to be submitted to Google. That student written project proposal should follow this submission template.

Mentors may add project ideas with programming competency tests to this page below as GSoC approaches. These may prove useful in starting a discussion with potential mentor(s) whom the student should approach directly.

Github's for standalone GSoCs past and present

Since 2013 with Boost's transition to git we have kept a single umbrella org on github for those GSoCs which are fairly self standing. Incremental extensions to existing libraries usually enter that library's main git repo as an experimental branch. Here are those orgs:

• GSoC 2013: ​https://github.com/BoostGSoC13
• GSoC 2014: ​https://github.com/BoostGSoC14
• GSoC 2015: ​https://github.com/BoostGSoC15
• This year's GSoC will be housed at ​https://github.com/BoostGSoC16

Students may find examining past GSoC source code and commit histories of use.

Historical GSoC Ideas pages for years 2006 to now

• 2015 Project Ideas
• 2014 Project Ideas
• 2013 Project Ideas
• 2012 Project Ideas
• 2011 Project Ideas
• 2010 Project Ideas
• 2009 Project Ideas
• 2008 ​Project Ideas
• 2007 ​Project Ideas
• 2006 ​Project Ideas An overview of Boost participation in Google Summer of Code™ 2006.

Suggested GSoC project proposals

To any potential mentor adding a proposal HERE please use this template