Hi Sergei, Thank you and the community for accepting my proposal of this year's GSoC: Kerberize MariaDB -- add kerberos authentication support to MariaDB. I'm Shuang Qiu, a second year graduate student from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. My field of research is distributed computing, especially distributed storage. I just get in touch with my project mentor Mr. Vaintroub and join the #maria IRC channel at freenode.net, where I can be found as shuang. Thank you again and hope we can have a happy and productive summer! Cheers! Sincerely, Shuang