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  "publishedAt": "2026-04-30T00:00:00.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "Google Summer of Code (GSoC)",
    "Marknote",
    "Prayag Jain",
    "digiKam",
    "Srirupa Datta",
    "2023",
    "Drawy",
    "Abdelhadi Wael",
    "Kdenlive",
    "Yash Bavadiya",
    "Kirigami",
    "Shubham Shinde",
    "last year's GSoC",
    "Okular",
    "Ojas Maheshwari",
    "Lokalize",
    "Navya Sai Sadu",
    "KStars",
    "Pavan Kumar S G",
    "KeepSecret",
    "Roshani Kumari",
    "Mentorship Portal",
    "Ansh Singhal",
    "Plasma Mobile",
    "Tushar Gupta",
    "Mankala",
    "Sayandeep Dutta"
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  "textContent": "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.\n\nKDE will mentor twelve projects in this year's Google Summer of Code.\n\n## Marknote\n\nMarknote is a rich text notebooks organizer.\n\nPrayag Jain aims to introduce a robust and high performance block editor and a proper markdown parser to Marknote under the guidance of Carl Schwan and Mathis Brüchert.\n\n## digiKam\n\ndigiKam is an advanced open-source digital photo management application which provides a comprehensive set of tools for importing, managing, editing, and sharing photos and raw files.\n\nSrirupa Datta, who already successfully completed a GSoC in 2023 working on Krita, will this year work on digiKam to interface the database search engine to an AI-based LLM. This project is mentored by Gilles Caulier, Michael Miller and Maik Qualmann.\n\n## Drawy\n\nDrawy is a recent addition to KDE applications! It is an infinite whiteboard tool useful for brainstorming.\n\nAbdelhadi Wael will improve the text items by implementing rich text handling and other improvements. This project is mentored by Laurent Montel.\n\n## Kdenlive\n\nKdenlive is KDE's video editor.\n\nYash Bavadiya will work on improving the curves, gradients and time remapping effects. This project is mentored by Jean-Baptiste Mardelle.\n\n## Kirigami\n\nShubham Shinde, a successful participant in last year's GSoC working on Merkuro, will work this year again under the guidance of Carl Schwan to improve the Kirigami framework and the developer experience.\n\n## Okular\n\nOkular is KDE's universal document viewer.\n\nOjas Maheshwari will work under the guidance of Albert Astals Cid to implement font subsetting when saving PDF files in Poppler (the PDF rendering library used by Okular).\n\n## Lokalize\n\nLokalize is the localization tool for KDE software and other free and open source software.\n\nNavya Sai Sadu will improve Lokalize by redesigning the translation memory tab to help with the translators' experience. This project is mentored by Finley Watson.\n\n## KStars\n\nKStars is the KDE astronomy software providing an accurate graphical simulation of the night sky, from any location on Earth, at any date and time.\n\nPavan Kumar S G will add a new AI powered guiding assistant for Ekos under the guidance of Jasem Mutlaq.\n\n## KeepSecret\n\nKeepSecret is a password manager for viewing, editing, creating, or deleting passwords.\n\nRoshani Kumari will work on improving the user experience and adding new features such as import/export of passwords, adding a built-in password generator, and much more. This work is mentored by Marco Martin.\n\n## Mentorship Portal\n\nAnsh Singhal will work on creating a new join.kde.org website which aims to improve the onboarding experience by centralizing the different entry points the KDE community has. This project is mentored by Anish Tak, who was a successful mentee last year on the same topic!\n\n## Plasma Mobile\n\nTushar Gupta will rework some networking modules (KCM) to make them more mobile friendly. This work will be mentored by Carl Schwan and Devin Lin.\n\n## Mankala\n\nMankala is a two-player board game containing multiple variants.\n\nSayandeep Dutta will add a new interface to create tournaments for the Mankala game. This project is mentored by Benson Muite and Srisharan V. S. who completed a successful GSoC contributor on the same project last year.",
  "title": "KDE & Google Summer of Code 2026"
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