Hello,
my name is Raoul, i am a student of computer science and i wish to contribute to the Hurd and if my skills allow to participate to GSoc 2015.
My knowledge of C is pretty good but i always want to keep on learning more and the best way is to code, sadly i don't have any OS development knowledge.
I loaded Debian/Hurd live CD in Qemu and played around with translators a bit and also read (not all) the documentation of Mach, Hurd and browsed the Mach source tree.