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Project ideas
16 ideas on its 2026 ideas page; of the 15 that state a difficulty: 7 medium, 8 hard. Sizes: 2 medium, 13 large. 11 mentors named.
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- Add a new Mancala Variant to Mankala Engine medium medium
- Enable Tournaments in Mankala medium medium
- Implement font subsetting when saving PDF files large medium
- PDF Image Alt text support via Structured information large medium
- Project: Implement block editor large medium
- Project: Interface the database search engine to an AI based LLM large hard
- Make network related KCMs feature complete with desktop equivalent large hard
- Implement Rich Text large hard
- Improve effect widgets large medium
- AI-Powered Guiding Assistant large hard
- Spectroscopy Slit Guiding & Comet Tracking large hard
- Project 1: Adapt PO file read / write to use libgettextpo large hard
- Project 2: Integrate Weblate API large hard
- Project 3: Redesign the translation memory tab large medium
- Project: Make Wallpapers a standalone process large hard
Read the ideas page. Ideas are for scope reference; never copy one into a proposal.
History
In GSoC since 2016, 11 years. Projects per year: '16: 32, '17: 24, '18: 17, '19: 22, '20: 19, '21: 15, '22: 6, '23: 7, '24: 10, '25: 12, '26: 12.
On GitHub
No GitHub organization found in its official listing.
Links and channels
- Website: https://kde.org/
- Ideas page: https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2026/Ideas
- Contributor guide: https://community.kde.org/GSoC
- Source code: https://invent.kde.org
- Chat: https://community.kde.org/Matrix
- Mailing list: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel
- Chat: https://userbase.kde.org/IRC_Channels
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