I’ll be glad to see if I can help if you need anything from a university perspective (internship, student projects, proposing a topic to our students, or research-oriented in our lab. I’m a professor in a university in Paris).
Though, my experience with student projects around SFOS (which I did for a few years, and we developed a few apps through that) is mixed:
- Documentation for SFOS was (is?) not straightforward for students. Those who managed better were those who had previous classes with the Qt library. Basic tutorials, clear tips and tricks, easy to replicate examples, clear Silica components docs, etc. were missing.
- Tooling and the SDK is hazardous, prone to many errors, and not always reliably working. We wasted too much time to make the SDK, IDE and the emulator work, that in many cases, little time was left for the actual dev and students were quite frustrated with the experience.