Gauging interest for a student projects revival

[Kevin Ottens]

Hello gearheads!

Following up on yesterday BoF with Paul and other folks, I thought I'd revive 
this thread a bit. People had questions, that's only fair and I tried my best 
to answer. If you got further questions, feel free to ask them of course.

That being said, I'm still looking for projects and so far nobody got back to 
me (to be fair I forced it a bit on Nate this morning, so there's one project 
idea in the works).

Don't be shy! Please send me proposals. ;-)

Regards.

On Thursday, 14 August 2025 14:10:14 Central European Summer Time Kevin Ottens 
wrote:
> 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.


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