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<h1>Donate to the Boost C++ Libraries</h1>
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<p>According to <a href=
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"https://www.openhub.net/p/boost/estimated_cost">OpenHub's
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Boost page</a>, as of August 2014 there are 14.2 million lines
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of code in Boost. Given the high quality of coding needed to
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pass Boost's community review process, and the extensive unit
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and functional testing required, a cost of US$20/line is not
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unreasonable. By that metric, the Boost C++ Libraries would
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cost US$284 million to rewrite from scratch in a commercial
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organization.</p>
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<p>If you want more of the same, please donate generously. We
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will use donations to fund Boost infrastructure, help finance
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<a href="http://cppnow.org/">the annual C++ Now conference</a>,
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and help fund students to work on Boost code without having to
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worry as much about finding the time or money to do so. You
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should be aware we may also use donations for any other purpose
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the Boost Foundation feels appropriate.</p>
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<h2>Why ask for donations for the first time in fifteen
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years?</h2>
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<p>Boost was not generated, for the most part, by any
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commercial organization. It is available in the public interest
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as one of the purest forms of open source: its license,
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<a href="/LICENSE_1_0.txt">the Boost
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Software License</a>, is highly permissive and allows
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unrestricted commercial use. Most of the code was written,
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documented, and tested in the spare and family time of some of
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the very best C++ engineers in the world, many of whom are also
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involved in the ISO C++ standardization process. Many of the
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additions to the C++ 11 standard library started life in the
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Boost libraries, and so will many of the additions and changes
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to the next C++ standard library.</p>
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<p>Yet, for its first fifteen years, Boost has never asked for
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donations of money from its users. So why begin now?</p>
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<p>As Boost grows, more time and resources are being spent on
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dealing with the size and complexity of Boost, especially as
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libraries are transitioned to make full use of the new language
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features in C++ 11/14. If you wish to support those efforts to
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bring more Boost libraries into first tier support for the
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latest generation of C++, please donate generously.</p>
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<h2>Why you should donate with a recurring monthly
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donation</h2>
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<p>Boost has participated in <a href=
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"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code">Google's
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Summer of Code</a> since 2007. This is an annual student open-source programming stipend program lasting three months during
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which experienced Boost developers mentor students who work on
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improving Boost libraries, usually in all the boring, thankless
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stuff none of us like to do. The problem with the three month
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duration is that the student is only just getting familiar
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enough with the Boost libraries to ramp up their
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productivity and rate of output when the program ends. This
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leads to these outcomes:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>We don't reap the full rewards of what we should given
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the substantial investment in mentoring our developers invest
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into students each year.</li>
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<li>The student is just getting into the Boost libraries when
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they need to return to concentrating on their studies, and
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often back to the part time work needed to finance the high
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expense of university study nowadays.</li>
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<li>Students, when they graduate, get pulled into the
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development of proprietary rather than open-source software,
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or they end up gravitating to one of the many open source
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projects much better at running a student-to-developer
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pipeline than Boost historically has been.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Whatever the case, Boost is not benefiting as it should from
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enthusiastic students with great ideas about where C++ should
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go next, and we hope that <em>you</em> can help us change
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that.</p>
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<p>So, if you or your company or organization has benefited
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from the Boost C++ Libraries, or you would like to assist
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promising young C++ engineers develop their talents to the
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