The KDE community is excited to accept 51 students into the Google Summer of Code program this year. Their projects will touch KDE on almost every level, and integrate the students into our community. Some are likely to become longtime KDE contributors. The next month will be spent on community bonding, getting to know the people and the code behind the project they'll be working on. From May 23rd until the end of August, they'll be working with their mentors to complete their own projects.
Accepted proposals for 2011 are varied, including improvements in the KIO file transfer protocol, file sharing on a personal cloud server, and more. New form factors will be worked on in the Plasma Media Center project along with mobile profiles for Amarok and Marble. Students will also be adding QML Video support to Phonon, integrating Telepathy into the Plasma workspace, and further modularizing the Kwin Window Manager. Many other applications will get a helping hand this summer as well. Krita, part of the Calligra Office Suite, accepted 4 students this year; Digikam and Marble each accepted 3 students. Kate, Okular and Calligra Stage will each have 2 projects. Other accepted projects include the creation of an easily accessible, high quality KDE technology demo similar to Qt's, the ability to have a single login for any KDE site through identity.kde.org integration and the beginnings of a framework to conduct usability surveys.
For the full list of accepted projects, please see the GSoC website.
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