Mentorship 

Eight weeks ago I was nervously setting up a Hugo project I'd never touched before, reading through someone else's merge requests trying to understand what I was supposed to build on top of. Today, mentorship.kde.org is a meaningfully better place for anyone trying to find their way into the KDE community. That's a good feeling. Read More

Hi everyone, Aviral here :) I have been a past contributor to the KDE ecosystem for a few projects like Okular and Spectacle. KDE was the first organisation I ever worked with in my open source journey and now I am very excited to share the update of my Season of KDE 2026 project. Read More

Hey everyone! I'm Onat, and I'm a bit past the halfway mark of my Season of KDE 2026 journey. Here's what I've been working on! For reference, here are some relevant links: Read More

Hey there! I'm Vishesh Srivastava, and we're at the halfway mark of my SoK 2026 project — writing Appium-based UI tests for Lokalize. I was a bit late for the halfway mark, but we're still on track. Read More

Greetings to the KDE community! My name is Jaimukund Bhan and I have been working on Lokalize, the l10n tool used to translate KDE software, for Season of KDE 2026. Specifically, I have been fixing the Glossary - which is a collection of frequently used words linked to keyboard shortcuts for quick access while translating. Read More

I'm half-way through the Season of KDE 2026 and wanted to share the journey so far. I had subscribed to the kde-soc mailing list after I returned from IndiaFOSS'25, where I met KDE contributors who really encouraged me to join the community and told me that one can always learn while building. The first step, always, is to start. Then I got carried away with life until I saw "call to action" in my mailbox in January. It was about SoK'26. I had then recently set up Kubuntu and was in awe about what people can build out of passion and by collaborating with others. I felt mentorship was the way to get started. I explored the projects and found Task-3 under Lokalize as something that I can contribute to while learning new skills- programming in CPP, debugging, and exploring an old repo. Read More

Hey everyone! I am Siddharth Chopra, a second year engineering student at the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. I'm really excited to be working on Marknote as a part of the Season of KDE program this year, under the mentorship of Carl Schawn. Read More

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