Urgent: we need projects (with mentors) for a gsoc-like project with Canadian universities (CANOSP)

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi Tomaz!

On Fri, 12 Nov 2021 11:05:20 +0100
Tomaz Canabrava <tcanabrava at kde.org> wrote:

> Hello fellows
> The kde community, represented by me (Tomaz Canabrava) and Aniqa Khokhar,
> had a really nice meeting with CANOSP - a coalition of universities from
> Canada - with the intention of hosting a few projects for the students to
> work on.
> 
> Differently from gsoc, the students will not work alone but in groups of
> theee to four, and they will also not write a project to implement, but
> implement something that the application needs - with the hints of the
> mentor.
> 
> It’s expected that the projects are technically challenging and that it has
> either real world usage or can be interesting on a university context.
> 
> The project will run for a semester within the universities, with one local
> mentor for each team (a uni professor) and a kde mentor.
> 
> This is a great opportunity for us to improve the entry barrier in Canada -
> as, from what I understand we have almost zero developers.
> 
> 
> I’ll wait for projects for two weeks before sending the names to the CANOSP
> organization
> 

we could use help in adding support for kpat's saved games format to pysol:

https://github.com/shlomif/PySolFC/issues/93

> 
> Best regards,
> Tomaz



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