Hi! Here are answers:
* Yes, we know that 50 hours is a small number, that is our
estimation. Our Bachelor's thesis is just a normal class and we have
to pass many others simultaneously. Each of these classes requires
its own predefined projects. We can spend more time on the project,
but we do not want to overestimate our free time. If some of us
manage to, then he can devote twice or thrice of that time.
* Remote Skype presentation is ok, but please keep in mind the
potential timezone difference. Poland is in CET/CEST depending on
the season. I do not know if presentations will be in the morning or
afternoon.
And more:
* At the very beginning, in October, we have to make some agreement -
at least with the lecturer. It must contain what we (students) are
going to complete and our grade depends on what we manage to finish
on time, that is why we would rather underestimate than overestimate
our free time. The idea behind this is to let the students face a
real world project with a real client.
* Apart from what already mentioned, the timezone difference may slow
down our communication. We were told that sometimes it is important
to react to formal, nontechnical matters really quickly. Therefore,
we are considering "a hack" proposed by another lecturer:
officially, we can make the agreement with the IT Team of our
university, which would act as a kind of middleman, handling all the
formalities required for the Bachelor's thesis to be accepted. Of
course, we will still ask all the technical questions on the mailing
list or the IRC channel, as before. In this case, they can make the
presentation instead of you, I guess. Anyway, it would be cool if
you were able to present the project, because you know more about it
and it will surely be more interesting :)
* I may underestimate the proposed project, but it seems small to me,
like for a single person in that time. Do you have other ones?
Possibly bigger or more projects of that size? I have asked the
lecturer if we can have a couple of small subprojects instead of a
single big one, but I still have got no answer. Moreover, I am
considering contributing to servo during this years summer
internship, so it can help me in estimations in the October.
--
Regards,
Artur "Mrowqa" Jamro
www.mrowqa.pl <http://mrowqa.pl>
W dniu 2017-05-18 o 21:16, Josh Matthews pisze:
Hi! My apologies for the long delay in replying. I have a few
questions about the requirements here:
* is the idea that each team member would spend 50 hours on the
project between October and April? That number sounds small to me; I
guess that would be 2.5 hours per week if evenly distributed?
* would a remote Skype presentation in October be allowed?
As for the projects you found, those are all completed ones that have
been worked on by previous student teams in the past. One project
possibility would be
https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/HTTP-archive-support-project -
some students successfully updated the rust-har library to compile
with modern Rust compilers, but none of the subsequent steps have been
completed. I would be happy to add additional work to that project to
make it fit your requirements if you're interested.
Cheers,
Josh
On 2017-05-06 7:46 AM, Artur Jamro wrote:
Hi,
I and some friends of mine are students of University of Warsaw,
Poland and
we are writing our Bachelor's thesis next academic year (about: mid
October/November 2017 - end of April/beginning of May 2018). Bachelor's
thesis at this university means writing some piece of software for a
real
world client. We fell in love with Rust and really like the Servo
project,
so we are considering contributing to Servo.
What do we want?
- write something in rust
- help this world to be a better place :)
What we can offer?
- team of 4 students (our university requires teams of exactly 4
students)
- each of us can offer about 50 hours of work (or possibly more, but
it is
crucial to finish the project on time)
What do we need?
- a project
- someone who will visit University of Warsaw in the beginning of
October
and say something about the chosen project (officially, companies are
presenting their projects then and each team has to choose one of
them, but
it is possible to find a project earlier and ask someone to say about
it in
the October presentation) -- I think best option would be to ask some
remote Mozilla employee or community member.
We have checked out the GitHub wiki and found some projects which really
seem cool to us (like WebSocket, Webdriver, XML parser, WebGL). On the
other hand, we are not sure if they are not too small for our team to be
accepted by our university. I don't know if we really need one big
project
or some small subprojects would be okay, with thesis titled like
"Improving
Servo, i.a. (1), (2), (...)" - I am going to ask the lecturer about that
soon. For now, we would like to know what options we do have :)
Could you offer us some interesting project?
Thanks in advance for any help!
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