Hi all, My name in Rajul, and I am a final year undergraduate student at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. I wish to participate in Google Summer of Code 2014, and while going through the list of organisations, I came across The syslog-ng project". I am proficient with programming languages C/C++, Python, Java, Groovy, Ruby. I am very interested in the fields of Algorithms, Machine Learning, Complex Networks, Information Retrieval. I have always been interested in programming and in the past I have participated in Google Summer of Code 2012, with the organisation Network Time Foundation,working on the project "improving the Logging/Debugging System of Network Time Protocol Software". I have also interned in the Global Technology division of Barclays, during the summers of 2013, working with the Market Risk IT team. Besides I have worked on a few Research projects in the fields of Computational Finance, Complex Networks, and Computational Chemistry. I am currently working on my Thesis project in the field of Computational Sciences on a project titled "Network Analysis of Chemical Reactions". I have had courses in the fields of Programming and Data Structures, Complex Networks, Distributed Systems, Algorithms, Operations Research in the past. I have gone through the list of project ideas and I found most of the project ideas very interesting. Although I find all the projects listed worth a while, I am particularly interested in the "Configuration Visualization" and "Type Hinting from the start" projects. I suppose that my programming background is suitable for these projects. I shall be grateful if anyone can help me and give me reference to the literature that I may use and also shed some light on how I can go about making a successful proposal. Thanks!! Best Regards, Rajul -- Rajul Final year Undergraduate Student, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur