Dear All, My name is Tibor Benke, I'm a first year MSc student at Budapest University of Technology and Economics, where I study Computer Science. I heard about GSoC and the most interesting organization was the syslog-ng project. I've professional experience in C/C++, Java, Python and worked with git. Since my childhood I always wanted to be an engineer. After graduating I got a certificate of "IT network installer and operator". Then I went to university, where I specialize in Networks and services, but I concentrate on designing and writing networked applications. My BSc thesis was to write a web based network management application in Python. During the academic years I participated in some competitions. What I'm most proud of is the national EuroSkills 2013 qualifying rounds, where my team earned the sixth place in which I was the Linux specialist. I also have work experience: one summer I patched a network driver in the Linux kernel, then did some research in the field of Hadoop and Big Data. In 2013 I contributed to some open source projects, like Log4j2, Logback and syslog-ng. Along with my studies I lead a group of 60 volunteer students, who operate the network and server of my faculty's dormitory, write games, mobile- and other applications. The project I'm most interested in is "Integration with config management systems". Since I wrote my thesis in Python, so the Salt part shouldn't be so hard. I like to learn new languages, so I'm looking forward to enhance my knowledge by learning Ruby. Regards, Tibor Benke