University Collaboration in Toulouse

[Boudewijn Rempt]

Hi!

Kevin Ottens has managed to reboot the very succesful university collaboration scheme he managed in Toulouse for several years. He's looking for KDE projects that can provide mentoring for several students who will collaborate on a project that is more intensive than the usual summer of code. In Calligra, we've had students working on Stage, with great results.

I would like to propose a Krita project here. Specifically: selections. Selection creation tools in krita are primitive, our selection handling is primitive and in one respect just plain _wrong_ -- so, in my opinion, this would a be a good, self-contained subject for a group of bright people to dive into and redo, from design to implementation.

The usual thing is that there are two mentors: one code mentor, one "customer" mentor. David -- I was thinking of you here, since iirc you are in the vicinity. And you speak the language :-) The job basically would be to tell the development team what you need and then when they deliver tell them if they got it right. Would you have time for that? My job would be to get these students hacking in the Krita codebase and make sure they do a good job.

Previous batches of students have stayed around the KDE project for a long time, the stage students are even working on organizing akademy in France, for example.


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Boudewijn Rempt
http://www.valdyas.org, http://www.krita.org, http://www.boudewijnrempt.nl