The 2016 Boost Summer of Code happened because of IMC Financial Markets.

IMC Finacial Markets

Boost has participated in the Google Summer of Code program for a decade and is very grateful for Google’s generous past support. This program allows college students to have a paid summer internship working on open source projects, giving them an interesting alternative to summer onsite internships. Because the students that work on Boost libraries tend to stay with the same libraries summer after summer, the continuity of this program is important to Boost and to the students that work on Boost projects.

Boost has traditionally been a model GSoC participant receiving a more than average slot allocation, so we were caught by surprise when Google rejected our 2016 application. They asked us to apply again next year, but to sit out 2016 so to give open source projects which don’t normally get awarded an opportunity. We understand this rationale, but this policy would mean no summer internships for Boost and leave students that have been working on Boost libraries looking for other alternatives for the summer of 2016.

When IMC Financial Markets learned about this situation, they saw it as an opportunity to support the Boost community and demonstrate their commitment to student development and open source.

IMC worked with Boost to create its own “Boost Summer of Code” program, deliberately patterned after Google’s program. IMC also stepped up to underwrite all the costs of this program for the summer of 2016.

We thank IMC for their support and community leadership.

C++Now 2017

The tenth annual BoostCon, C++Now 2016, wrapped up with the announcement of C++Now 2017.

The dates for next year’s conference will be May 15 through 20, 2017 and the location will again be the Aspen Center for Physics in Aspen, Colorado (with some sessions at the adjacent Aspen Institute). The Aspen Meadows Resort will again serve as the official hotel for the conference.

Best Session Winners

Also announced were the results of the Best Session balloting by C++Now 2016 attendees. The winners are:

Lisa Lippincott

• Best Presentation: What is the basic interface? by Lisa Lippincott (Tanium)

Jason Turner

• Best Tutorial: Practical Performance Practices by Jason Turner
• Most Useful: Practical Performance Practices by Jason Turner

Ansel Sermersheim

• Most Inspiring: Multithreading is the answer. What was the question? by Ansel Sermersheim (CopperSpice)

David Sankel

• Most Engaging: Monoids, Monads, and Applicative Functors: Repeated Software Patterns by David Sankel (Stellar Science)

Congratulations to all the winners!

Thanks for a great success The conference organizers would like to send a big thank you for a successful 10th annual BoostCon to all the speakers, the attendees, Patty Fox, the staff of the Aspen Center for Physics, the staff of Aspen Meadows Resort, the Program Committee, the Student/Volunteers, the conference planning committee, Software Freedom Conservancy, and, of course, all our wonderful sponsors.

We’ll see you all in Aspen next May.