Hi, for this years project, we are now beyond community bonding, and coding on the project, and required research do start. In last meeting w/ our students we discussed a bit the basics for the next week or so. The initial POC/spike should be this JIRA: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AGPUSH-2098 Note, all work should be done on the "GSOC_2017_kafka" branch: https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-unifiedpush-server/tree/GSOC_2017_kafka For starters, I've sent a first basic PR against the branch: https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-unifiedpush-server/pull/835 Besides the initial epic, we are going to create more and more JIRAs, in AGPUSH, with the "gsoc_2017" label. Here is a public filter for those tagged JIRA tickets: https://issues.jboss.org/issues/?filter=12332273 We should also create a JIRA board for sprint planing and our backlog, on the GSoC project. Cheers! Matthias -- Matthias Wessendorf blog: http://matthiaswessendorf.wordpress.com/ twitter: http://twitter.com/mwessendorf