Hi all, I have been accepted for the project "Self-Tuning Optimizer". I will be doing this project under the mentorship of Sergei Golubchik. There is already a task created which will track the progress for this project: https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-350 . I'll start with getting familiar with the code base, reading some literature on cost estimation in optimizer and interacting with community. About me: I am currently a 4th year student pursuing B.Tech - M.Tech dual degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) – Kanpur, India. This would be my first GSoC project. I had done an internship at Facebook last year. I'll also be maintaining a blog at http://igniting.in . I'm really excited to be a part of mariadb and I hope to make a significant contribution to it. Regards Anshu Avinash