Hi Ilya, On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 6:26 AM Ilya Bizyaev <bizy...@zoho.com> wrote:
> Hello! > > I'm currently in my last year of bachelor studies, and I'm now looking for > a topic for my bachelor thesis. I've had a wild idea of doing a KDE-related > engineering project since it sounds fun, would give me a good occasion to > help advance open source software that I use and love, and appears to be an > acceptable way of doing the thesis from my university's side. > > Since it would have to be a big project, "scratching my own itch" with > bugfixes won't work. It would also require a sensible degree of novelty, so > doing something-that-GNOME-has-but-in-Qt is also not an option. Finally, > for a successful project I would need to prove its relevance, so that would > have to be something actually useful and releasable as part of our products. > > That's why I decided to write an email to this mailing list and ask if > someone with more insight into Plasma's development direction has some > ideas for such a project. > > As for me, you may have seen me around KDE for a while :) I study applied > mathematics and computer science at ITMO University in St Petersburg, so > have a background in mathematics, algorithms and data structures, and other > relevant subjects. I primarily code in C++ and have some insight into > Qt/KDE software, and I've worked on Chrome OS in the past. There are some > topics suggested by the university (mostly around machine learning), and > there will likely be some more from its partner companies, but I am curious > if I can also complete a well-defined and meaningful project for KDE. > > Best regards, > Ilya Bizyaev <m...@ilyabiz.com> > Very cool proposal, and I hope you can get some feedback. I suggest sending your email to KDE-devel and KDE-Community to reach a few more people with ideas. Valorie -- http://about.me/valoriez - pronouns: she/her
