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<h2>Welcome to Boost.org!</h2>
<p>Boost provides free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries.</p>
<p>We emphasize libraries that work well with the C++ Standard Library. Boost
libraries are intended to be widely useful, and usable across a broad spectrum
of applications. The <a href="https://www.boost.org/users/license.html">Boost
license</a> encourages the use of Boost libraries for all users with minimal
restrictions.</p>
<p>We aim to establish "existing practice" and provide reference
implementations so that Boost libraries are suitable for eventual
standardization. Beginning with the ten Boost Libraries included in the Library
Technical Report
(<a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2005/n1745.pdf">TR1</a>)
and continuing with every release of the ISO standard for C++ since 2011, the
<a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/">C++ Standards Committee</a>
has continued to rely on Boost as a valuable source for additions to the
Standard C++ Library.</p>
<h3>Boost as an organization</h3>
<p>The Boost organization and wider Boost community supports research and
education in the best possible uses of C++ and libraries developer for it,
particularly, but not exclusively those contained in the Boost Library.</p>
<p>The organization and community support mailing lists and chat rooms to
educate about best practices and cutting edge techniques for the user of Boost
Libraries and C++ in general.</p>
<p>Since 2006 an intimate week long annual conference related to Boost called
C++ Now has been held in Aspen, Colorado each May. The conference is an
educational opportunity focused on cutting-edge C++. Boost has been a
participant in the annual Google Summer of Code since 2007, in which students
develop their skills by working on Boost Library development.</p>
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understand what Boost is about and to help in educating
your organization about Boost.</span></p>
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