Dear Boost, I am eager to participate in GSoC 2015 in one of the two projects (from this page:  https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/SoC2015 , 1 or 5). As far as I understood - the first one is tougher, and (as for me) conditions are clearer, and the second one is (seemingly) simpler. I am totally new to Boost (never used it, actually, but that is because I mostly used C++ in programming contests). I am familiar with algorithms (from contests), and testing (manual, both for stability and performance), but I am not very familiar with C++11 (but I can compensate for that, because I have knowledge of other languages (C#, Javascript (nodejs)) and older C++ versions), and automated tests. At first, I'd like to ask - what should I choose?  My main goals are: 1) To enter the community 2) Learn C++11 new features (I will start early on that, obviously) 3) And to learn how to code open-source programs (up till now I only have closed-source ones, apart from one project, which has not-so-good code quality - see here: https://github.com/hotab/OpticalBuilder ) 4) Plus understand better how to maintain library code (I already have some understanding of that, but I want to sharpen it). Both can give me that.   I'm looking forward to hearing from you, Vladislav Babkin