I am a prospective gsoc 2015 applicant and wishes to apply to it under the New Destination Project -Riak Destination .

@algernon-the mentor for this project gave me a few pointers to get started get started, so i have gone through the following things

1- compiled syslog-ng from source

2- went through the configuration docs(chapter 5), found it pretty interesting

3- Read up on the Google protocol Buffers and reading through the examples of its c library protobuf-c

4- did set up a single riak node()(will experiment with it after i set up the riak-c-client which i am currently installing)

The things i am planning to do in the coming couple of days is to figure out the features of riak 2.0 that riak-c-client does not support and really would have to decide whether to use this library and implement the missing features or develop the new one . Only after this step can i lay down a project plan for the GSoC time period.

Also i have working knowledge of C, lex and yacc (brushing them up these days). Any suggestions or tips or ideas would be welcome. I usually learn as i go and have a keen interest in new technologies,so any other prerequisite that i should have or that can help me in the project should be told.

I am usually always online so i can be reached at htrapdev@gmail.com , irc nick: @htrap.

Github: github.com/htrap

Please let me know if any other details are required. looking forward to suggestions.

Regards,

Parth Oberoi