Hello everybody, Hope you're all doing great and had a good Easter vacation !
Congratulations to all the GSoC participants ! I am Savita Seetaraman, a student who has been selected to participate in Google Summer of Code 2014. I had submitted a proposal for the project "Advanced Caching Plugin". This mail is a short introduction about myself. *About myself :* I am a final year computer science and engineering undergraduate student in Amrita University, India, but currently doing an Erasmus Mundus exchange program in the University of Trento, Italy. Being an open source enthusiast, I have been using Linux for the past 3 years and have contributed to a few other open source organizations like E-cidadania, GNOME and Mozilla Firefox. *Why I applied for Monkey Organization :* The one main reason for that I wanted to contribute to Monkey Project is that, my area of interest from the topics that I have covered till date in my curriculum, is Computer Networks. Till now, what I have achieved in the subject, is mainly theoretical knowledge. I believe that any study is incomplete without knowing how to use / implement what you learnt. By contributing to Monkey project I will gain practical knowledge of some of the concepts that I have learnt. The other reason (as I mentioned to some of the mentors) that got me attracted to this organization is its very different but correct name ! :-) :-) *About my project : Advanced Caching Plugin* Some random thoughts that come to my mind when I think about my project are the following : Firstly, I am very excited about the project which I am sure the contestants would be too, about their respective projects ! :-) Secondly, Monkey server is already very efficient when it comes to performance. I hope that when I complete my project of developing a caching plugin, I will be able to contribute in improving its performance even more ! Otherwise it would be really of no use. Thirdly, I am extremely grateful to the mentors for selecting me (and thus in a way, trusting me with this project). Although I feel excited, I also feel nervous and I hope that I live up to their expectations in the future and do not disappoint them. :-) I will try my best to successfully pass all the evaluations and complete the project ! *During my free time :* I like listening to music a lot ! I boosts me up and makes me feel rejuvenated. It takes me to another world. So when I'm not in front of the computer, this is what I do - listen to music. My other free time activity is walking. I regularly blog at savita92.wordpress.com . Looking forward to introductory mails from other participants ! :-) Do feel free to mail me if you have any questions. :-) Thanks and regards, Savita.
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