KDE will mentor twelve projects in this year's Google Summer of Code.

[kde@floss.social]

KDE will mentor twelve projects in this year's Google Summer of Code.

Broaching from classics like Okular, KStars and digiKam, to new arrivals such as Drawy, Mankala, and keepSecret, we look forward to a productive summer with, lots of learning and lots of commits.

KDE & Google Summer of Code 2026

Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a training/mentorship program that allows new contributors to open source to work on projects for between 175 to 350 hours under the guidance of experienced mentors.

KDE Mentorship (mentorship.kde.org)

#GSoC #mentoring #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

[bryangreyson@social.tchncs.de]

@kde I want OptiImage to get attention, please.

[pabloyoyoista@social.treehouse.systems]

@kde that is a looooot of interns!! Congrats 🥳

[msdropbear42@blahaj.zone]

@kde@floss.social sometimes i really wish that some major software orgs might hold meetings or events in some southern hemisphere cities, then post seasonal mentions about it like this, just so the northern hemisphere peeps can have their heads blown apart for once trying to fathom when the hell in the year is being alluded to? 🥺

[justin@toot.io]

@kde standard Northern Hemisphere bias by Google

[justin@toot.io]

@BryanGreyson talk to the developers and drum up proposals for big changes that you want to see. Then they can be submitted for the next round. @kde

[bryangreyson@social.tchncs.de]

@justin @kde It's mostly several little bugs and if I remember correctly there are already issues opened for them since the initial release, but I'll check again.

[kde@floss.social]

@justin That's why our own mentorship program is Season of KDE (SoK).