Greetings, fellow developers. I recently joined the syslog-ng community because of Google Summer of Code, and I thought this would be a good time to briefly introduce myself. I am studying Information Technology in Dublin, Ireland, and I got accepted for GSoC 2012 to work on the MongoDB destination driver project. Syslog-ng, the leading logging platform for log collection and management, has been storing logs in MongoDB for over a year, but the technical documentation on the implementation is rudimentary, which impedes the improvement of the driver's functionality and speed. The goal of this project is to enhance the MongoDB destination driver for syslog-ng, to make it more robust, scalable and performant. Specific tasks and deliverables will include: - modifying syslog-ng's internal value pairs subsystem so that it will be able to emit a tree of values, instead of just a flat name:value list; - teaching the mongodb driver to walk the tree, and constructing BSON objects out of it, and using 'insert' instead of 'upsert'; - adding support for bulk inserts into a MongoDB, instead of inserting one by one My GSoC project proposal can be found at https://google-melange.appspot.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2012/ekyu... This is my first time working on an open source project, and I've liked a lot so far. My mentor has been tremendously friendly and helpful. I'm looking forward to a great summer of code with the syslog-ng community, and I would certainly like to keep you posted on the discussions and patches I will be making. Meanwhile, your comments and feedback would always be helpful. Best regards, Eun Kyung