Gauging interest for a student projects revival

Kevin Ottens ervin at kde.org
Thu Aug 14 16:21:29 BST 2025


Hello,

On Thursday, 14 August 2025 15:22:23 Central European Summer Time Paul Brown 
wrote:
> This ties in perfectly with one of the legs of the "KDE Needs You 🫵" goal.
> 
> One of the things we are working on is expanding SoK to cover
> 
> - the KDE-oriented GSoC like events we currently run
> - training programs for trainee/junior developers in KDE-friendly companies
> (we are already talking to KDAB, QT and ICS)
> - Bespoke programs for NGOs and individuals
> - "Work experience"-like/end of course/dissertation projects for students <
> your project would fall under this category

Note this is very different from GSoC or SoK which are from the single 
contributor point of view. Here it's a whole team you have to deal with, the 
logistics is quite a bit different.
 
> It seems redundant to have two projects working on the same thing, so would
> you like to join the KNY project?

I'm not sure what you mean by that. To me it's not "the same thing", it goes 
toward the same goals though.

> If so, I'll invite you on Matrix to the room and we can also pursue this
> further while at Akademy.

Sure.

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

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