We have been accepted as a mentoring organization at GSoC

[RazvanN]

On Thursday, 27 February 2025 at 11:24:23 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote:
> On Thursday, 27 February 2025 at 08:43:27 UTC, RazvanN wrote:
>> It is with great happiness and excitement that I am making 
>> this announcement that we have been accepted as a mentoring 
>> organization for Google Summer of Code. This is a great 
>> opportunity to attract new talent to contribute into our
>
> Excellent! Can we PLEASE finally have someone work on 
> replacement for the std.stream that was deprecated 15 YEARS 
> ago, with the team telling us there will be range-based 
> replacement for it. We all know that never happened. The 
> closest thing that could be a suitable replacement was Martin 
> Nowak's std.io work that Steven based his SUPERB iopipe upon.
>
> Also, how about we finalise previous GSoC projects, like the 
> xml package, that was really a promising GSoC project, and it 
> was never finished...

We have already submitted the project list and unfortunately none 
of these are on that list. The problem is we lack mentors that 
can guide students for those projects. If we want more 
projects/students we need more people that are willing to do this 
form of continued guidance/mentoring.

RazvanN