letalvoj / oss-thesis-ideas

List of thesis topic ideas. Feel free to open a PR and help the make the open-source world a bit better.

OSS Thesis Ideas

List of open-source thesis ideas. Feel free to open a PR and help to improve the open-source world.

Ideas

Existing projects

This list is grouped by the main languare required to contribute to a specific open source project.

Java

• JSch - implement OpenSSH multiplexing (Proposed by: @letalvoj)

Stand-alone projects

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For students

• more than one student can work on a specific topic
• add your name to a topic after you start working on it
• publish your repository here after submitting the thesis to avoid plagiatorism
• topic is considered finished if it has been either upstreamed or released as a software package in any other way
• it is ok to base your work on a published yet unfinished results of previous students if there is still enough work to do
• please cite this list

Contributions

• Have you ever thought why something has not been done yet? Would it make a great thesis topic?
• Are you a maintainer of an opensource project?
• Do you see a typo here?
• Did you find a way to improve a description of a specific thesis idea?

Please open a PR!

PR Guidelines

A PR adding new new entry to the main list MUST also include a md file in ideas/ giving a reasonably thorough description.

Disclamer: by contributing a thesis idea you are NOT required to commit to advising or reviewing the final thesis. It is up students to find an advisers likely within their university.

Citation

Feel free to replace the name of the author with the name of the person who proposed the specific idea. Please keep the URL.

@online{OpenSourceThesisIdeas,
  author = {Letal at al.},
  title = {Open-Source Thesis Ideas},
  url = {https://github.com/letalvoj/oss-thesis-ideas}
}

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