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

[Albert Astals Cid]

El divendres, 12 de novembre de 2021, a les 11:05:20 (CET), Tomaz Canabrava va escriure:
> 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

What's the estimated running dates for the projects? I need to be aware to which dates i'm potentially agreeing to be available in advance.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> 
> Best regards,
> Tomaz
>