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Hello world! My name is Keshav Nanda and I had the opportunity to work with Scripty, a KDE bot that extracts translatable strings from various KDE applications and sends them to KDE translators. Read More

Progress Report — Midterm — SOK 26 Mentor: Finley Watson Project: Lokalize Week 1 Week one was basically just ensuring that I have a good understanding of the relevant code in the repository. I suggested a good approach would be to write a summary of the behaviour of the classes and functions involved. This turned out to work really well. Read More

Week 0 progress Report — SOK 26 I am Kumud, a third year student at IIT Roorkee, and I am working as a mentee under the guidance of Finley Watson for SOK 26. Read More

My name is Aditya Sarna, and I have been working on Lokalize, a translation software, as part of Season of KDE 2026. Along with my fellow mentee Jaimukund Bhan, I have been assigned to work on improvements to the Glossary tab, including both UI/UX enhancements and addressing a substantial list of bugs. Read More

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

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week something very special landed for Plasma 6.7: the ability to type characters not on your physical keyboard by pressing-and-holding the keys that it does have: 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

It’s been a busy few months for the development team! We’ve been focusing heavily on turning Marknote into a much more robust knowledge base while keeping the interface as clean and distraction-free as possible. Today, we're releasing version 1.5, and it’s packed with major additions and quality-of-life improvements. Read More

The first release of KIO S3 is out! KIO S3 is a KIO worker that allows you to browse and manage files stored in Amazon S3 and S3-compatible storage services (such as Cloudflare R2, DigitalOcean Spaces, MinIO, and others) directly from Dolphin and other KDE applications. 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