Dear Community Member, ### Submit your ideas for SoK today!
https://community.kde.org/2026 It's that time of year again when we all need to brainstorm ideas for Season of KDE projects. We also need you to volunteer to become a mentor. Our mentorship programmes ensure the survival of individual projects within KDE, as well as the survival of the KDE project itself. By guiding others, you play a key role in ensuring new volunteers actively participate in KDE and in making our software the best of its kind. ### Time to get stuff done Ideal projects are those that have hit a roadblock due to a key missing feature or the lack of support for a particular format, and require someone to dedicate some quality time to solving the issue; or those that need a breath of fresh air to take them to the next level; and then there are those that require crucial bug fixing or documentation. Not only do you get a chance to break through those bottlenecks, but you also get new fresh perspectives on how to solve future issues, and prepare the next generation of FLOSS contributors to keep up the godly work. What's not to love? ### Inspiration outlet here! If you need inspiration, check out ideas from prior years: - [2023](https://community.kde.org/SoK/Ideas/2023) - [2024](https://community.kde.org/SoK/Ideas/2024) - [2025](https://community.kde.org/SoK/Ideas/2025) Or visit KDE's social media: - [Discuss](https://discuss.kde.org/c/brainstorm/7) - [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/1pw169e/my_wishlist_for_kde_in_2026_whats_yours/)—try and ignore the entitlement and concentrate on the contents. And finally here are some wild ideas we dreamed up ourselves: - Implement a KDE Connect-based protocol that would allow KDE apps to share configurations and data on paired devices. I.e. imagine being able to configure Tokodon once on your desktop and magically have it auto-configured on your phone too, or transparently synching your trips on Itineraryover several devices. - Create a proof-of-concept control panel for [Home Assistant](https://www.home-assistant.io/) for Plasma Mobile using [KIoT](https://github.com/davidedmundson/kiot). - Solve the Plasma-Google integration problem. #### About KDE Mentorship Programs KDE is currently participating/organising three mentorship programs: - **[Season of KDE](https://mentorship.kde.org/sok/)** (or **SoK**) is two-month long mentorship programs that provides an opportunity for people to do mentored projects for KDE. [Timeline](https://mentorship.kde.org/sok/). - **KUWoC**, organised in partnership with the University of Kathmandu, lasts one month and aims to provide real life FLOSS projects for students at the university to work on. - **[Google Summer of Code](https://mentorship.kde.org/gsoc/)** (**GSoC**): Google Summer of Code is a program sponsored by Google to help developers start contributing to open source software. We will be updating you on the timeline for that later in the year. Cheers, Paul & Johnny on behalf of the SOK26 coordinating team
