Hi there, I'm Kiran Sarvabhotla , an MS student from International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad, India. I'm glad to hear that Apache Derby has been accepted as a mentor organization for this year's GSOC.
Kathey Marsden: I heard about Gsoc from one of my old batch-mates ( Mr Ravinder Reddy ,participated in Gsoc-07) whose project titled as "Implementing Speculative locking protocol for Apache derby" I am going to continue this year. He advised me to take part in Gsoc as it will give me a great opportunity to work with a large fraction of the derby code and interact with large community. I have a decent amount of experience working with databases and testing with junit. any advice before I jump on to the task.? Thank you -- kiran