[Bug-wget] GSoC 2015 participation

[Ander Juaristi Alamos]

Hi all,

I'm writing this message regarding your participation in GSoC 2015. I know you 
guys are busy, so I'll try to keep it short.

I'm a university student on my last year in a CS degree. Ideas 2 and 3 fit me 
like a glove, so I didn't hesitate to send you my offer for participation. I 
hold an EC-Council CEH certification, which means I have security knowledge, 
and yes, that includes HSTS. What's more, I currently work full-time for a 
research center developing and maintaining several web crawlers in the cloud 
(my work is part of my end-of-degree project, so no class attendance anymore). 
I'm even the lead developer of one of those. Therefore, I have extensive 
knowledge of the HTTP protocol, including conditional requests such as 
If-Modified-Since, which we use a lot in order to keep the footprint as low as 
possible on the websites we crawl. I'm proficient in the C language, specially 
in network programming under UNIX-based environments, and I've spent the last 
years studying the TCP/IP stack. I feel comfortable reading RFCs. Finally, I 
have a exposure to open source software development, including coding 
conventions, patching best practices/conventions, how to post on mailing lists, 
etc.

Unfortunately, although I can understand Python code, I don't know Python yet. 
That's why I'm only interested in ideas 2 and 3, and not 1. Of course, I'm 
willing to learn if necessary.

Given my great interest in joining this project, I'm approaching you so that we 
can start to get to know each other, and discuss further steps to take prior to 
submitting a formal proposal. I'm not familiarized with the Wget code, but I'll 
dive in it soon. Apart from that, is there anything else you expect me to do? 
Anything you'd like to ask? I'm all ears.

By the way, I can provide references if needed, just ask for them.
 
Regards,

- AJ