Dear all, KDE Student Programs is excited to announce the 2018 Season of KDE Programme. Participant and mentor applications will open on 1st December 2017, and the working period will start from 1st January 2018 and will last either 40 or 80 days, depending on the length of your project. As always, 2018 Season of KDE is not restricted to students; participation is open to the general public.
The official announcement is available to view at: https://dot.kde.org/2017/11/19/announcing-season-kde-2018 The 2018 Season of KDE will be a little different from the last few editions. In particular, we've made a few changes to the programme since last year: * We're limiting the number of projects to just 6. Both KDE and WikiToLearn will share this quota. * Participants can now choose to do a shorter sprint project with a duration of 40 days, or a longer full project with a duration of 80 days. * You can now finally apply as a team! Individuals may propose either sprint or full projects, but proposals for full 80-day projects can now also be made by teams of up to two people. * Do you want to make KDE work better on MacPorts or Homebrew? Do you want to improve LibreOffice's integration with Plasma? We welcome proposals that involve other open-source software projects and their integration with KDE. More details in the official announcement at [1] * This year, we decide on a winning project based on an objective criteria, and all participants in the winning project get to travel to Vienna, Austria to attend Akademy 2018 between August 11 and 17, 2018. We'll pay for your flights and stay. As always, we encourage prospective participants to start discussing projects with us right now rather than wait for the application period to start. Join the [email protected] mailing list, hop onto our IRC channel (#kde-soc on Freenode) or contact the maintainer of your preferred project or team directly. We're re-using the Google Summer of Code 2018 Ideas Page at [2] to collect potential code-based project ideas. Please note that Season of KDE also accepts non-code contributions (i.e., infrastructure, documentation, design and outreach projects) which are not listed on the GSoC Ideas page. Participants are encouraged to think outside the box and propose their own projects. Thank you, and let's make this year's Season of KDE the best year ever! -- Boudhayan Gupta, for KDE Student Programs [1] - https://dot.kde.org/2017/11/19/announcing-season-kde-2018 [2] - https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2018/Ideas
