Message-ID: <43209CF9.4070003@kefren.be> Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 22:20:09 +0200 From: Ochal Christophe User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: nl-NL, nl, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Effort to port OpenOffice.org to AmigaOS4" Subject: Re: [OO.org-OS4] University projects References: <431D532A.5090809@kcl.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <431D532A.5090809@kcl.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Heya! Piyush Khengar schreef: > Dear all, > > The time has come when our projects coordinator has asked for us to > submit our project descriptions for students to choose from. Cool! Let's get these guys some work :D > Following the brief meeting I had with Olegil et. al. at AmiGBG, I > would now like to enlist your help in formulating some of these > descriptions so that we can get my students involved in this project. > I cannot do this myself, as I do not know the current status of the > project, nor do I know what needs to be done so far. Going of the top of my hat: - We have libUSB - We have pthreads - We have aspell & various other small dependencies > While thinking up these descriptions, please keep the following 5 > points in mind: > 1. These are 3rd year Electronic Engineering students who have covered > C/C++ in their 1st two years of study - they are NOT computer science > or software engineering students. > 2. From start to finish, they would have only about 6-8 months (2 > semesters and a bit) in order to complete their work. > 3. They should be spending about 5-10 hours a week on this (remember > they have other courses to study too). > 4. The projects should be realistic for students of this level. > 5. The description should contain enough detail/pointers for the > student to be able to make a good start. I.e. they should know where > they should begin to do their research in order to proceed with the > actual coding. Does their tasks need to be within a certain field? eg device drivers? Or does any coding project go? > I hope that descriptions will start to fly in soon after this email. I > am looking to supervise at least 4 BEng individual projects, and at > least one 4th year MEng GROUP project. A few descriptions (on a bigger > scale) for group projects would also be great. > > Many thanks, > Piyush (Captain Moo Moo) Sorry for not replying earlier, like you might have noticed, i've been missing in action ALOT lately, work's a bitch.