<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><body ><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div>Hello Christoph, David!<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thank you for your input!<br></div><div><br></div><div>I have read through the shared materials, browsed Bugzilla reports, dug up and read the <a href="https://blogs.kde.org/2018/08/02/engineering-plasma-extensions-and-stability-—-present-and-future" target="_blank">blog post</a> by Eike, and watched David's <a href="https://conf.kde.org/en/Akademy2018/public/events/66" target="_blank">presentation</a>.<br></div><div>I like the project idea that David suggested, and I would like to work on it.<br></div><div><br></div><div>---- Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 17:31:32 +0400 <b>David Edmundson <<a href="mailto:david@davidedmundson.co.uk" target="_blank">david@davidedmundson.co.uk</a>></b> wrote ----<br></div><div>> 2 years ago I started an ambitious project<br></div><div>I'll only have half a year or so, but David also does a ton of other work all around Plasma, so I hope to be able to complete the project in time 😅<br></div><div><br></div><div>> CompSci professors always look more for research than actual coding<br></div><div>That's fair. Even though the format would declare it an engineering thesis and shift the focus more to the code, I would still need to show research skills, explain the novelty of this work (maybe by using a more general topic name) and write plenty of text. Do you think the topic allows for that?<br></div><div><br></div><div>If so, I will ask the university representative for approval of this project as an engineering development thesis topic. For that, I will need a formal "consultant" with a master's degree in Computer Science who can reason about the topic's relevance, track my progress, and sign the papers. Would anyone be up for the role?<br></div><div class="zmail_extra" data-zbluepencil-ignore="true" style=""><div><br></div><div>Best regards,<br></div><div>Ilya<br></div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div></div><br></body></html>