Hi, On Tuesday, 2013-12-10, 22:03:29, Ovidiu-Florin Bogdan wrote: > Hello world, > > Me and my fiancée are students for a masters degree in Software Engineering > and we need to find projects for our dissertations. > > We really want our projects to be something useful and to be a part of KDE.
Very cool! > We were thinking of a few things and would like your feedback on them on if > and how can this be achieved. > > > - KDE Connect: seamless file browsing on android device (using Dolphin); > SMS integration with Telepathy, to be able to respond and view the > message thread; Answer and make phone calls (through Telepathy, maybe); > Contacts integration with Akonadi for the above two. > - Akregator: Integration with Akonadi; A plugin to connect and sync with > feedly: feeds synced across devices, search for new feeds, categories, > tags, etc. Akonadi porting is already being worked on, not sure how far it is though. No synching as far as I know. > - Akonadi: better contact integration: see if mail sender is online for > chat and start chat, send email to the person chatting with (Kmail and > Telepathy). That is basically ready, called KPeople. In general I am not sure if either of those ideas would qualify for a master thesis work, but that will of course depend on what the university expects. Speaking as a PIM developer we would of course love to have someone work on PIM stuff and PIM data and user interfaces in general make good research material :) I would suggest you also ask on the kde-pim mailinglist so you can get feedback by more developers from that area. > I have some experience with KDE development, I've looked over the code of a > few applications and made a few pull requests, so I know a few things on > how part of KDE works, but I still need some guidance. Mostly I've only > done translations and support. That shouldn't be a problem. Aside from help being available on mailinglists, quite some projects have people who are experienced mentors. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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