website-v2/templates/boost/about.html

{% extends "base.html" %}

{% load static %}

{% block subnav %}
  <div class="py-8 px-4 space-y-4 text-sm uppercase border-b md:py-2 md:px-0 md:space-x-10 border-slate">
    <a href="{% url 'boost-about' %}" class="block md:inline md:py-1 md:border-b text-orange md:border-orange">About</a>
    <a href="{% url 'boost-people' %}" class="block md:inline">People</a>
    <a href="{% url 'boost-moderators' %}" class="block md:inline">Moderators</a>
  </div>
{% endblock %}

{% block content %}
  <div class="flex py-0 px-3 mb-3 md:py-6 md:px-0">
    <div class="hidden w-1/6 md:block">
      <ul class="py-8 space-y-4">
        <li><a href="#overview" class="text-orange">Overview</a></li>
        <li><a href="#whosUsingBoost">Who's Using Boost</a></li>
        <li><a href="#mission">Mission</a></li>
        <li><a href="#history">History</a></li>
        <li><a href="#board">Board of Directors</a></li>
      </ul>
    </div>

    <div class="w-full md:w-5/6">

      <div class="py-8 md:flex md:w-full md:space-x-18" id="overview">
        <div class="order-1 mx-auto mb-6 w-3/4 md:order-2 md:w-1/2 md:text-right">
          <img src="{% static 'img/icons/graphic_stairs.svg' %}" class="md:float-right" />
        </div>

        <div class="align-middle md:py-11 md:pr-11 md:w-1/2">
          <h2>The Boost C++ Libraries are a collection of modern libraries based on the C++ standard.</h2>

          <p>
            The source code is released under the Boost Software License, which allows anyone to use, modify, and
            distribute the libraries for free. The libraries are platform independent and support most popular compilers,
            as well as many that are less well known.
          </p>
        </div>
      </div>

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      <div class="space-y-11">
        <div class="py-2 border-b md:py-6 border-slate" id="whosUsingBoost">
          <h2>Who's Using Boost?</h2>

          <p>
            Open source isn't just for nerds and researchers. Real world programming challenges, irrespective of whether
            they are open or closed source, can benefit enormously from the thought and experience that has gone into
            the Boost software libraries. Put simply, for any given problem for which Boost provides a solution, Boost
            will strive to provide the best solution possible. It's up to you to decide whether we've achieved that,
            but as these pages will testify, many other developers have found our solutions to be the best for them.
          </p>

          <p>
            Disclaimer: Boost's developers try to ensure that the information on these pages is correct, but from time to time
            inadvertent mistakes are bound to occur: if you would like an entry in these pages to be removed or corrected
            please contact the <a href="{% url 'boost-moderators' %}" class="text-orange">Boost Moderators</a>.
          </p>

          <h3 class="py-5 text-orange">Open Source Boost</h3>
          <p>
            Boost is used in a variety of Open Source Projects, both applications and libraries. Indeed many Open Source
            libraries developed around Boost have in the past been judged of high enough quality to be absorbed into the
            main Boost source tree, a process that will no doubt continue into the future. Others are in highly specialized
            niche markets, ranging from probability theory to astronomy, via mass spectroscopy: whatever your field of
            interest you'll find something of value in Boost.
          </p>

          <h3 class="py-5 text-orange">In House Boost</h3>
          <p>
            Whether you're a government department, an internet startup, or a specialist consultancy, in-house developement
            using the Boost Libraries can significantly shorten your development cycles.
          </p>

          <h3 class="py-5 text-orange">Shrink Wrap Boost</h3>
          <p>
            Boost has found it's way into many products that are available "off the shelf", including consumer
            applications from Adobe, through to business middleware from SAP.
          </p>


        </div>

        <div class="py-2 border-b md:py-6 border-slate" id="mission">
          <h2>Mission</h2>
          <p>
            The Boost mission is threefold: (a) develop high-quality, expert-reviewed, open-source C++ libraries,
            (b) incubate C++ standard library enhancements, and (c) advance and disseminate C++ software development
            best practices. This is accomplished by facilitating C++ community engagement, providing necessary financial/legal
            support, and breaking rare directional decision-making deadlocks while upholding our shared values of
            engineering excellence, technocratic leadership, and a federated library authorship model.
          </p>
        </div>

        <div class="py-2 border-b md:py-6 border-slate" id="history">
          <h2>History</h2>
          <p>
            Beman Dawes and Robert Klarer developed the idea for the web site during a series of corridor
            conversations at the March, 1998, meeting of the C++ standards committee in Sophia Antipolis, France. The
            Boost community emerged later that year, when the first version of the standard was released. It has grown
            continuously since then and now plays a big role in the standardization of C++. Even though there is no formal
            relationship between the Boost community and the standardization committee, some of the developers are active
            in both groups. The current version of the C++ standard, which was approved in 2011, includes libraries that
            have their roots in the Boost community.
          </p>
        </div>

        <div class="py-2 border-b md:py-6 border-slate" id="board">
          <h2>Boost Foundation Board of Directors</h2>
          <p>
            After being a project of Software Freedom Conservancy for over a decade, Boost has spun-off into it owns
            501(c)(3) non-profit corporation name Boost Foundation. We are forever grateful to Software Freedom
            Conservancy for their support and guidance to achieve this milestone.
          </p>

          <p>
            Boost Foundation Board of Directors will now assume the role that was filled by the Boost Steering Committee.
          </p>

          <div class="my-11">
            <a href="#" class="py-2 px-4 text-base uppercase rounded-md border text-orange border-slate">Learn More</a>
          </div>
        </div>
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