Gauging interest for a student projects revival

[Kevin Ottens]

Hello folks,

Some of you might remember that quite while ago, I was setting up student 
projects with the Toulouse University. We had quite a few students 
participating in those and helping KDE projects over the years.

Unfortunately, the organization changed in the Toulouse University and this 
kind of died out. :'/

That being said, I've been in contact with one of Paris Universities earlier 
this year, it looks like they have a program we could participate in and they 
seem very eager to have KDE related projects.

AFAICT the setup would be similar to what we did in Toulouse:
* I collect interesting projects, each having a KDE developer as main point of 
contact ("the customer" so to speak);
* I present the projects to the University;
* Teams of students pick among the projects what they fancy (between 3 and 5 
students per team);
* During the course of the project, one of their teacher keeps an eye to how 
the student work, the "customer" provides feedback on their work and make sure 
what they produce can be used.

One point still unclear would be the amount of involvement I could have once 
the projects are started. I used to first train the students on the basics, 
then keep an eye on the progress and give them advice. If possible I'll aim 
for this but this is still an open question.

The start of the projects would be end of year, next January latest.

Anyway, for that to happen we'd need projects to propose obviously, hence this 
email:
* do you work on a project which would benefit from a team of students 
participating for a few months? (they'd contribute a few hours each week, they 
have other courses to attend to obviously)
* are you interested in having that "customer"/point of contact role for the 
said project?

I'd like to go forward with at least three projects to propose, if there are 
more it's fine as well.

I'll also be at Akademy to discuss this further with anyone interested. I'm 
aiming at having a list of projects and customers ready by mid-October latest 
as I expect the conversation with the University to take a bit of time to bear 
fruits.

Regards.
-- 
Kevin Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net

enioka Haute Couture - proud supporting member of KDE
https://haute-couture.enioka.com/en
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