<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-e783ff0d-7fff-5ffe-4348-576ade57d9f2"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap">Helllo,</span><br></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">My name is Anastasia Markina. I&#39;m currently a computer science master degree student at Brest State Technical University (Belarus) and have previously studied applied informatics in Sergiyev-Posad branch of VGIK (Russia). For the past four years, I have been actively involved in the open source community. In particular, I am a co-organizer of the LVEE conference (</span><a href="http://lvee.org/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://lvee.org</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">) - a central FLOSS event in Belarus and one of the largest general-topic Linux-related regular conferences in Russian-speaking countries. In addition, I regularly participate as a speaker and/or listener in a number of other events related to Linux, such as OSSEDUCONF and OSSDEVCONF (Alt Linux conferences in Pereslavl and Kaluga) and Linux Piter.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">My programming skills cover C (with some limited knowledge of the Linux kernel - I give lab classes and course projects on programming Linux kernel modules at the university along with my master degree study, but students are taught not very complicated things), C++/Qt, C#, relational and non-relational databases, and Python, and some more exotic languages like Perl (save me God from programming on it again). My own open source project is a free/libre software suite for parallel usability testing, </span><a href="https://bitbucket.org/AsyaAliset/uxdump" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://bitbucket.org/AsyaAliset/uxdump</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">), which is currently used in Brest State Technical University, it is written in C++ with several Python scripts.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Of course, I often use virtual machines — mostly desktop, because my main systems are Archlinux (it just happened) and Ubuntu (at least this one is more girlish), and virtualized Windows with snapshots saves me a lot of time. Container virtualization is not something I use every day except indirect use on a web server, but I know about OpenVZ and CRIU. Actually, this is because I’m the one who makes the LaTeX typesetting of the LVEE book of abstracts, and </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Pavel Emelyanov had a talk about CRIU in 2015… also, Andrew Vagin had one in 2013, which was before I joined LVEE, but still I had to re-create the book because of someone from the organization board who lost the previously saved one… mankind shouldn’t know who it was, so I will be silent).</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">So when I got information about CRIU-related GSOC projects, I thought that it would be great to participate. I think two ideas on </span><a href="https://criu.org/Google_Summer_of_Code_Ideas" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://criu.org/Google_Summer_of_Code_Ideas</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> are good for my skills: Optimize logging engine (I know about binary logs from my MySQL experience, so implementing such thing looks like a good job to do) or Anonymise image files (it looks like an easy thing, maybe too easy?). </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I would be happy to add my five cents into the open source virtualization technologies, and I would be grateful for any advice on these two topics that I think I am more familiar with.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Thanks in advance! </span></p><br><br></span></div>