Hi, I am Anmol Sood,a second year undergraduate student, pursuing Mathematics and Computing at Indian Institute of Technology,Delhi. I have been following the Boost mailing list for the last couple of months and I have been trying to understand some Boost libraries and enhancing my skills in generic programming at the same time. I saw the GSOC 2015 Boost page ( https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/SoC2015) and the project on concurrent hash tables looks really interesting to me. I would like to know on the kind of pre-requisite skills required for the project and if I could share the progress I am making on writing code for the programming competency test here. Any tips/advice on helping me to get started on working for this project will be really helpful. Thanks.