Boost has developed many libraries which is useful in the field of science. I would like to propose a library for "Astronomy" as a student. I have been an amateur astronomer since last 8 years and being a Computer Engineering student I will be able to develop this library with little mentoring. I have some ideas about what can be integrated into it, which I can propose if the proposal seems promising. If so are there anyone who can help me out with this? Thank you, Pranam Lashkari On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 4:11 AM, Tom Westerhout via Boost < boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:

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Dear Boost community,

once again this year, we will apply to be a mentoring organization for

On 10/01/2018, David Bellot via Boost wrote: the

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Google Summer of Code 2018. Our organization has been quite succesful for the last decade and this year we hope to be selected again.

As part of filling in our application for 2018, we must supply to Google a list of potential GSoC mentors and potential GSoC projects for summer 2018 in order to be approved as an organisation this year.

Therefore a lengthy page of awesome project ideas at https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/SoC2018 before *January 23rd* would be an enormous help to getting us approved again this year and bringing to Boost another Google funding (worth dozens of thousands of dollars on average).

A student here rather than a mentor, but I'd still like to propose a project. Last year we had a Boost.StaticMap[1] project which evolved into Boost.StaticViews[2]. Niall Douglas was kind enough to mentor me during the summer.

Boost.StaticViews is a very small C++14 library for manipulation of compile-time data ("constexpr"-level, not "type"-level). It consists of two layers: low-level views and non-owning containers implemented on top of them. The views part resembles some similarity with Ranges and could in the future be replaced by it if/when Ranges reach the high enough level of constexpr-ness. As for the containers part, currently it has an implementation of a static_map, a non-owning hash table with amortized O(1) accesses which are completely optimised away if input is available at compile-time.

Although the last GSoC lay some good foundation, quite a bit of work still needs to be done before StaticViews can be proposed for inclusion into Boost. With high study load I can't find enough time to seriously work on the library now, but I believe that with some mentoring I should be able to bring in to review-ready state during summer vacation.

Does this seem like a project Boost community could benefit from? If so, are there any volunteers who would be willing to guide me?

Thanks in advance!

[1] https://svn.boost.org/trac10/wiki/SoC2017 [2] https://github.com/BoostGSoC17/static-views

Tom

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Having a recommendation from Niall means a lot to me. Please someone mentors Tom. I really mean it. Unfortunately I won't be able to do it myself because (1) I don't have to right knowledge for this kind of project and (2) I hope to mentor again on uBLAS. On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 7:23 AM, Niall Douglas via Boost < boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:

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A student here rather than a mentor, but I'd still like to propose a project. Last year we had a Boost.StaticMap[1] project which evolved into Boost.StaticViews[2]. Niall Douglas was kind enough to mentor me during the summer.

I'd like to say that Tom was a great student last year, and that his coding was impressive. The project is niche, but serves that niche well and can plug into greater things.

I'd prefer another Boost member to mentor him if possible as this summer, unlike last summer, I have an extremely full schedule. I am working away from home in Dublin in an onsite contract for long, long hours per day during which my internet access is severely restricted (no Google services for example, all blocked). I get about two free hours per day on the train commuting to and from work during which internet barely works. My weekends are currently spent 100% looking after small children. I unfortunately would not be able to act as a useful mentor to Tom this summer, so if anyone else could step up, it would be very helpful.

Niall

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On 17/01/2018, David Bellot via Boost wrote:

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Having a recommendation from Niall means a lot to me. Please someone mentors Tom. I really mean it.

I'd like to add that for the mentor this project shouldn't take too much time. I greatly appreciate feedback, because that's the best way to learn, but I think won't need too much help and can do pretty much all the work myself.

I would concur. Tom basically goes off and makes great code all on his own. A mentor merely has to watch the commits, maybe comment a bit here and there, other than that Tom mostly needs advice on best direction and where is best to focus on, stuff he can't know yet. Advice experience gives you. Niall -- ned Productions Limited Consulting http://www.nedproductions.biz/ http://ie.linkedin.com/in/nialldouglas/

Hi Tom, to make it short, yes I think it could be a good contribution. I'm sure we can find a mentor too to help you on your project. If you can write a short proposal and add it to https://svn.boost.org/trac10/wiki/SoC2018 that would be great. Best, David On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 10:41 PM, Tom Westerhout via Boost < boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:

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Dear Boost community,

once again this year, we will apply to be a mentoring organization for

On 10/01/2018, David Bellot via Boost wrote: the

...

Google Summer of Code 2018. Our organization has been quite succesful for the last decade and this year we hope to be selected again.

As part of filling in our application for 2018, we must supply to Google a list of potential GSoC mentors and potential GSoC projects for summer 2018 in order to be approved as an organisation this year.

Therefore a lengthy page of awesome project ideas at https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/SoC2018 before *January 23rd* would be an enormous help to getting us approved again this year and bringing to Boost another Google funding (worth dozens of thousands of dollars on average).

A student here rather than a mentor, but I'd still like to propose a project. Last year we had a Boost.StaticMap[1] project which evolved into Boost.StaticViews[2]. Niall Douglas was kind enough to mentor me during the summer.

Boost.StaticViews is a very small C++14 library for manipulation of compile-time data ("constexpr"-level, not "type"-level). It consists of two layers: low-level views and non-owning containers implemented on top of them. The views part resembles some similarity with Ranges and could in the future be replaced by it if/when Ranges reach the high enough level of constexpr-ness. As for the containers part, currently it has an implementation of a static_map, a non-owning hash table with amortized O(1) accesses which are completely optimised away if input is available at compile-time.

Although the last GSoC lay some good foundation, quite a bit of work still needs to be done before StaticViews can be proposed for inclusion into Boost. With high study load I can't find enough time to seriously work on the library now, but I believe that with some mentoring I should be able to bring in to review-ready state during summer vacation.

Does this seem like a project Boost community could benefit from? If so, are there any volunteers who would be willing to guide me?

Thanks in advance!

[1] https://svn.boost.org/trac10/wiki/SoC2017 [2] https://github.com/BoostGSoC17/static-views

Tom

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