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GSoC Alumni Camp Delhi 2026

Wednesday, 29 July 2026
GSoC Alumni Camp Delhi 2026 – My Experience I attended the GSoC Alumni Camp in Delhi, it was an amazing opportunity to make people who are already familiar with open source aware of KDE Community and I was actually able to do that. The event itself was from 8:00 A.M. to 10:30 P.M. at night. The event started off with a formal opening session. Soon after was the scavenger hunt (we were hunting people!) it was a 5x5 grid where you needed to get signatures of people who fit the question in the box. A few of them were : Read More

Redesigning Lokalize's Translation Memory Tab - Mid-GSoC

Monday, 13 July 2026
The past three weeks were a mix of cleanup, debugging, completing the work concerning UI and understanding TMView( since I did not look into it during proposal period) and TMTab again to review my design choices and see if I'm going in the right direction. Read More

Redesigning Lokalize's Translation Memory Tab - GSoC Week 2 and 3

Saturday, 20 June 2026
The past two weeks went by fast. The learnings I gained while building the toy project I experimented around with Qt during Contribution Period are quite useful now. In the second week of GSoC, I ported the TM Manager from a separate dialogbox to TM Tab. It was done mainly for ease and with the reasoning that everything related to TMs can be in a single place. I kept most of the things as is. A lot of thought went into the UI Design. Read More

Redesigning Lokalize's Translation Memory Tab - GSoC Week 1

Sunday, 31 May 2026
Hi! I'm Navya and am working on Redesigning Lokalize's Translation Memory Tab. Lokalize was created during Google Summer of Code several years ago. This also implies that the conventions to be followed are quite old. Read More

GSoC: differences of expectations between students and organizations

Wednesday, 28 January 2026
I've been administering KDE's participation in the Google Summer of Code program for the last few years (and mentoring on some). This post is just some personal thoughts on the differences between what the KDE organization expects and what usually the applicants want (I'm not in everybody heads, it's assumptions from my experience). I don't provide any solution (because I don't have any) and there is no judgment (both point of views are valid), just a personal point of view. Read More