Hello members, I am Ashish Mittal, a pre-final year BE student of Computer Engineering from Sardar Patel College of Engineering, India. I intend and am very keen to take part in GSoC 2011 with MediaWiki as my mentoring organization this year. I am new to this list and to this organization and I wish to contribute here as a developer. I have already participated in GSoC 2010 under Sakai Foundation where I created a subsystem ‘Event Explorer’ [0] for them. I have experience with the mentioned required tools and technologies like Eclipse, Maven, Ant, Git, SVN, MySQL, Struts, Grails, JSP, Servlet, HTML, CSS, Javascript/JQuery, AJAX, JUnit and Mockito. I am good with UI interfacing and web 2.0 tools. I got a local copy of MediaWiki and have installed it. I want to start getting to grip with the architecture of MediaWiki. I saw that MediaWiki has already started preparing for SoC 2011 [1]. I have been through some documentations and this year’s project ideas. I am primarily interested in *MediaWiki core* [2]. If you could plase give me some important and relevant pointers which would help me understand the project more, it would be very appreciated. Also I wanted to know if there are some tasks which I could work on prior to timeline so as to get a better understanding of the architecture and code base. So if you could please give me some information on the above, it will be very helpful to me. Thanks in advance. [0] - https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/KERNDOC/KERN-717+Event+Explorer [1] - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2011 [2] - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2011#MediaWiki_core Regards, Ashish -- Ashish Mittal Student at University of Mumbai Yahoo: av_mittal(a)ymail.com Gtalk: ashishmittal.mail(a)gmail.com Phone: +919930820950