Hi everyone! My name is Galina Shalygina and I was selected for GSoC to work with MariaDB company. I'm from St Petersburg, at Russia and I study at St Petersburg State University with major in Analytical Information Systems. I'm in my third year at the University. My nick on IRC is galina and on github it's shagalla. I've already worked with MariaDB Server, and my contribution on non-recursive CTE was accepted by MariaDB. Now I'm finishing and implementation of recursive CTE. My project for GsoC 2016 is called "Pushing conditions into non-mergeable views and derived tables in MariaDB ". I plan to implement the optimizations that push conditions into non-mergeable (such as grouping) views/derived tables. I will be mentored by igor_seattle and spetrunia. During the community bonding period I'm going to: 1. Clone server code and build it; 2. Read documentation; 3. Study all developments on my theme; 4. Start some kind of blog where I'll write reports during work period; 5. For this project I will need to be able to clone expressions, so I'll start to work on solving this problem. I'm looking forward to working on this project. It would be a great experience for me! Best wishes, Galina Shalygina.