Plasma and a bachelor thesis

[Valorie Zimmerman]

Hi Ilya,

On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 6:26 AM Ilya Bizyaev <bizyaev at zoho.com> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I'm currently in my last year of bachelor studies, and I'm now looking for
> a topic for my bachelor thesis. I've had a wild idea of doing a KDE-related
> engineering project since it sounds fun, would give me a good occasion to
> help advance open source software that I use and love, and appears to be an
> acceptable way of doing the thesis from my university's side.
>
> Since it would have to be a big project, "scratching my own itch" with
> bugfixes won't work. It would also require a sensible degree of novelty, so
> doing something-that-GNOME-has-but-in-Qt is also not an option. Finally,
> for a successful project I would need to prove its relevance, so that would
> have to be something actually useful and releasable as part of our products.
>
> That's why I decided to write an email to this mailing list and ask if
> someone with more insight into Plasma's development direction has some
> ideas for such a project.
>
> As for me, you may have seen me around KDE for a while :) I study applied
> mathematics and computer science at ITMO University in St Petersburg, so
> have a background in mathematics, algorithms and data structures, and other
> relevant subjects. I primarily code in C++ and have some insight into
> Qt/KDE software, and I've worked on Chrome OS in the past. There are some
> topics suggested by the university (mostly around machine learning), and
> there will likely be some more from its partner companies, but I am curious
> if I can also complete a well-defined and meaningful project for KDE.
>
> Best regards,
> Ilya Bizyaev <me at ilyabiz.com>
>

Very cool proposal, and I hope you can get some feedback. I suggest sending
your email to KDE-devel and KDE-Community to reach a few more people with
ideas.

Valorie

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