Google Summer of Code -- now!

[Valorie Zimmerman]

Hello folks, I know that some of you are just beginning to mentor your
Season of KDE students. However, Google has made the prep phase for GSoC
even earlier this year, so it is time to start NOW.

For more information: https://g.co/gsoc/faq
More: http://write.flossmanuals.net/gsoc-mentoring/about-this-manual/ and
https://google.github.io/gsocguides/mentor

I would strongly suggest talking with your team and finding out who can
mentor this year, and what your team would like to propose for the Ideas
page. The sooner we get our ducks in a row, the better. *The strength of
our Ideas page is the most important part of our organization application.*

If you will be mentoring GSoC this year, please ensure that you are
subscribed to KDE-Soc-Mentor list. You'll need to ping one of us admins if
you aren't soon accepted. We don't allow any students on that list, and
sometimes can't tell who is who. I can't stress strongly enough -- every
mentor must be subscribed. You will be invited to the GSoC app after (if!)
we are accepted. Once again this year we'd like two mentors per student.

People interested in helping to administer this year should join
#kde-soc-admin (IRC or matrix-only) and the KDE-Soc-Management ml after
discussing how you can contribute with the present admins.

All the best,

Valorie

-- 
http://about.me/valoriez

KDE End of The Year Fundraising

[Lays Rodrigues]

Hello All =D
Today I'm here to ask for your support on our End of The Year Fundraising.
We have the campaign up for two weeks and almost 30% of the goal was
achieved.
Help us to make this number up powering up KDE Community for 2018.
Check out our dot story about the campaign here
 and the
website for the fundraising here
. On both sites, you will see
what we have done in 2017 and a few news about we are preparing for 2018.

​Thanks for your love and support =D​

​My best regards,​

-- 

*Lays Rodrigues*
*Intern at Rede Globo*
*Software Developer at KDE*
*Information Systems student at Federal Fluminense University*
*http://lays.space *
*Telegram: @lays147*
*IRC: lays147*