Hello Aleix, thank you for your reply!
> Have you thought about what you would like to do? Would you have some > ideas about something you would like to see developed? That's the hardest part for me, and what I was hoping to get some input on :) Most of the projects I can think of involve adding features that are already available in other open-source projects, like GNOME, but those are unlikely to be approved by the university. Then I think of some lower-level components, like file indexers, crash handlers, or window managers, where there's maybe a possibility to do something more `scientific`, but I don't have any special context to reason about what needs improvement there. > I also did my master thesis on KDE software and I think it worked well I have now found it and enjoyed reading it :D Best regards, Ilya ---- Дата: Вт, 20 окт 2020 16:34:37 +0400 Aleix Pol <aleix...@kde.org> написал(а) ---- On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 3:26 PM Ilya Bizyaev <mailto:bizy...@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 <mailto:m...@ilyabiz.com> > Hi Ilya, Have you thought about what you would like to do? Would you have some ideas about something you would like to see developed? I also did my master thesis on KDE software and I think it worked well, I'd love to help you do it too. Aleix
