That's definitely a sad news. But seriously, is there any other
organization that has contributed to the development of C++ as a really
versatile language than boost !
On Tue, Mar 1, 2016, 4:46 PM Mario Mulansky
On Tuesday, March 01, 2016 10:04:34 AM David Bellot wrote:
We heard back. Google's explanation is simply that they like to give a year off to particularly successful and long running GSoC orgs in order to make space for new orgs, and they hope we apply again next year.
Strange argument because Apache, Debian, Fedora, Gnome, GNU, KDE, LibreOffice, Mozilla, Python, R, X, etc.... They all have been accepted ! What's wrong with us ?
To be fair, those orgs are quite a bit larger than us. I just checked this for Python [1], which is an umbrella org for 5 suborgs each offering ~5 GSoC project. I guess this might look similar for the others in your list above so I don't really think boost compares to those.
Nevertheless, this is a big disappointment for us. I think boost had good project ideas again and I saw similar GSoC related activity on the mailing list as for previous years. With odeint, we had two very promising looking students in line, and I think this is also the case with the other projects. Anyhow, there is nothing we can do I suppose, and we will have to give it another try next year!
[1] https://wiki.python.org/moin/SummerOfCode/2016
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