Gauging interest for a student projects revival

[Albert Astals Cid]

El dijous, 14 d’agost del 2025, a les 14:10:14 (Hora d’estiu d’Europa 
central), Kevin Ottens va escriure:
> 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.

Does the project need to be totally independent (i.e. new app/library) or can 
it be adding new features to existing apps/libraries?

> 
> 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)

Do we have a guesstimate of how many total person-hours are we speaking about?

My random guess: 4 hours per week per person, 3 people per group, 12 weeks = 
144 hours

But maybe it's supposed to be 10 hours per week per person and 20 weeks which 
suddently puts it at 600 hours

Cheers,
  Albert

> * 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.