<div dir="ltr">Dear All,<br><br>I am Ashish Kumar, a third-year undergraduate student from IIT (BHU) Varanasi, India pursuing Computer Science and Engineering. I have been contributing to pgRouting since last year, and thus, I am pretty familiar with the codebase of pgRouting. I also have a good experience in C++, Git/GitHub, and graph algorithms.<br><br>I contributed to pgRouting in GSoC '20 and added some functionality to it, particularly the Boost Graph algorithms [1]. I would like to take another opportunity to contribute to pgRouting during the GSoC '21 period. From the GSoC Ideas page of pgRouting, Idea 3 interests me [2]. It focuses on implementing the VRP functionality in the vrprouting repository [3] of pgrouting, using VROOM [4] as a library in C++. The VROOM and similar optimizations related to VRP functions are of particular interest to the community as well, therefore, I'm looking forward to contributing to pgRouting, to add the VRP functionality with VROOM on the database. I have already completed the pgRouting Application Requirements for GSoC (again) [5] [6]. Also, I have been discussing the ideas with the mentors and simultaneously preparing the GSoC proposal for the same, for a long time. The draft of the proposal is ready, and I have shared the link of the draft [7] with the OSGeo organization from the GSoC dashboard. Hereby, I'm looking for valuable feedback or criticism from the community. Please review the draft of the proposal and give your suggestions, so that I can submit the final proposal for GSoC '21.<br><br>Looking forward to your feedback on the Draft Proposal. [7]<br><br>Regards,<br>Ashish Kumar.<div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/archive/2020/projects/4678956906708992/">https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/archive/2020/projects/4678956906708992/</a></div><div>[2] <a href="https://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting/wiki/GSoC-Ideas%3A-2021#details-of-idea-3">https://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting/wiki/GSoC-Ideas%3A-2021#details-of-idea-3</a></div><div>[3] <a href="https://github.com/pgRouting/vrprouting/">https://github.com/pgRouting/vrprouting/</a></div><div>[4] <a href="https://github.com/VROOM-Project/vroom">https://github.com/VROOM-Project/vroom</a><br><div>[5] <a href="https://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting/wiki/GSoC-Ideas%3A-2021#pgrouting-application-requirements">https://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting/wiki/GSoC-Ideas%3A-2021#pgrouting-application-requirements</a></div></div><div>[6] <a href="https://github.com/pgRouting/GSoC-pgRouting/issues/140">https://github.com/pgRouting/GSoC-pgRouting/issues/140</a></div><div>[7] <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f5wTZChYSMI3XfQr0D-WKpEAVNylh8JG4vHm7mNOEzU/edit?usp=sharing">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f5wTZChYSMI3XfQr0D-WKpEAVNylh8JG4vHm7mNOEzU/edit?usp=sharing</a></div><div><br></div></div>