Hi all, I am Shonali Balakrishna from Bangalore, India. I am going to be starting graduate school(MSc.) at TU Delft this fall and wish to participate in Google Summer of Code 2014 as a part of Syslog-ng. I am an Electronics and Telecommunications engineering graduate(2008-2012) from PESIT, Bangalore and I'm currently working in Oracle India, on automation/scripting for refresh(cloning) tasks in their Cloud Division. I am proficient in programming/scripting in C, Java and Perl. I have hands on experience with working on XML and XMPP through an automation project at work. I have user level familiarity with syslog-ng. Most importantly, I enjoy learning and am always willing to learning something new. I am interested in working on "XMPP Destination" and intend to apply for this project through GSOC 2014. I have been familiarizing myself with Syslog-ng source code in the last couple of weeks. I am working on a project proposal for the same and would like to run it by you for feedback when I'm done. I would be extremely grateful for any pointers or leads to resources you could provide me with, that would help me with this project. Thank you for your time. Best Regards, -- Shonali Balakrishna