members of the C++ Standards Committee: Beman Dawes, David Abrahams, and Robert Klarer. The idea originated during a conversation between Klarer and Dawes at the March 1998 C++ Standards Committee meeting in Sophia Antipolis, France, with Abrahams joining shortly thereafter to establish the first Boost mailing list.

Beman Dawes (died December 2020) served on the C++ Standards Committee (WG21) from 1992 and chaired the Library Working Group for five years during the completion of C++98. He was the original author of the Boost.Filesystem