<p style="line-height:1.656;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;font-family:'arial';font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hi,</span></p><p style="line-height:1.656;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;font-family:'arial';font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I want to apply to GSoC and this is my proposal draft. Please give me a feedback.</span></p><p style="line-height:1.656;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;font-family:'arial';font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">---</span></p><p style="line-height:1.656;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;font-family:'arial';font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I am a 4-year undergraduate CS student at Ural Federal University. This fall I met PostgreSQL and posted the first PR to WAL-G. I liked it so much that I decided to do the graduate work related to WAL-G - to implement backup(s) copying from one store to another (while WIP, I'm waiting for a review). I liked writing on golang, sorting out what works, and then I accidentally found out about GSoC and decided to give it a try.</span></p><div> <p style="line-height:1.656;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;font-family:'arial';font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I saw a list of suggested problems at https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/GSoC_2020#WAL-G_performance_improvements_.282020.29 and I was very interested in WAL's history consistency check and page checksum verification features.</span></p> <p style="line-height:1.656;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;font-family:'arial';font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In mid-June, I will have a defense of a diploma thesis for a bachelor’s degree (this should not interfere with GSoC), at the end of June graduation (and this too) and in mid-August, I will take exams for admission to the magistracy (this should not be reflected).</span></p> <p style="line-height:1.656;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;font-family:'arial';font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I want to learn new things, write cool features and improve Postgres.</span></p><p style="line-height:1.656;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;font-family:'arial';font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">---</span></p> <p style="line-height:1.656;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;font-family:'arial';font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Regards,</span></p><p style="line-height:1.656;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;font-family:'arial';font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Volkov Denis</span></p></div>