Hi Community! I am Kowndinya Renduchintala, a Second Year Undergraduate majoring in Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. I am completely new to Open Source Software Development. Having worked on C++ extensively for the last two years of my Undergraduate studies, I consider myself a proficient C++ programmer. I also had a great amount of exposure in Math, specifically in Linear Algebra and Calculus. This led me to do more work related to them and I started working in the field Data Science where I have largely used Python’s numpy and pandas libraries, also MATLAB in some cases. I am very much interested in developing equivalent capabilities of above mentioned libraries in C++ too! I have gone through the Project Description on the GSoC’21 Ideas Page, and I am highly delighted to see that “Project:3 Finalize Dataframe Implementation” (in Matrix and Tensor Computation category), matches my interests to a very large extent. I am also ready to spend 40-50 hours per week for the completion of the project, thereby helping in productionizing the code by the end of the GSoC’21. But I have some questions left out in my mind after reading the “Project Description” and the “Competency Test” following it. The description says- “add a collection of free form functions, modern data analysis procedures (as found in R tidyverse, in Python pandas/numpy, and in many other packages)”. 1. Do the mentor(s) have some preconceived “list” of the sort of functions to be implemented, or am I expected to include the details of “my” ideas in the project proposal that I submit to Google starting from Mar29 to Apr13? 2. Is the Competency Test(providing matrix and vector C++17 implementation similar to MATLAB syntax) meant for giving us a taste for how the work in actual project is going to look like? If it is the case, then I am highly interested to work on such things/ similar things for that matter. I request David Bellot(The Potential Mentor as per the Wiki page) or any one else who is involved with the above project to please guide me further. After clarifying above two questions, I can straight away get into business and start the work, try to make a list of deliverables and probably ask more “technical” questions that I have in the code base, in my next mail. Looking forward to collaborate with Boost.uBlas and successfully complete my first Open Source Software Development project at GSoC’21 in my most favourite programming language!!! Regards Kowndinya Renduchintala rharisrikowndinya333@gmail.com Sent from [1]Mail for Windows 10 References 1. https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986