• Bending Will created by Robert Streeter using Krita. (Image: CC BY-SA 4.0)*

This year there are 14 projects participating in Season of KDE.

The KDE Community warmly welcomes you, and looks forward to your contributions. We hope to have a mutually rewarding experience, where you learn about Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and we benefit from the projects you will build and/or improve.

Animated Transition Preview for Kdenlive

Kdenlive, the popular KDE video editor, will receive a usability boost. Swastik Patel will work on adding animated icon previews to the transition widget. Jean-Baptiste Mardelle will guide Swastik on this open source journey.

AudioTube: YouTube Music App

Chinmay Timwri will improve AudioTube, in particular enhancing ability to create playlists and augmenting data available for playlist creation. Chinmay will be guided by Jonah Brüchert.

Mankala Games

Add Kalah to Mankala Engine.

Kalah is a mancala game popular in North America which has benefitted from much research in creating computerized opponents. Rishav Ray Chaudhury will work on adding this to Mankala engine.

Add Pallanguzhi/Pallanguli to Mankala Engine

Pallanguzhi/Pallanguli is a mancala game popular in south India, and available in a number of variants. Shubam Shinde and Srisharan V S will add these to Mankala engine and explore different methods of creating computerized opponents.

Improve Mankala GUI

Ashutosh Singh will improve the prototype Mankala graphical user interface.

Remote Multiplayer Mode for Mankala

Nidhish Chauhan will work on using XMPP to allow for two people to play a mancala game over the internet by extending Mankala Engine.

These new contributors will be guided by João Gouveia and Benson Muite.

KEcoLab

Documentation

KEcoLab enables developers to measure the energy efficiency of their applications. Shubhanshu Gupta and Utkarsh Umre will work on improving the documentation and producing video tutorials so that the tool is easier to use and the reports produced can be understood by a wider range of people.

PDF application comparison

Oreoluwa Oluwasina will compare the energy efficiency of Okular and Adobe Acrobat within KEcoLab on both Linux and Windows.

Emmanuel Charruau, Karanjot Singh, Joseph De Veaugh-Geiss, Athul Raj K, Pradyot Ranjan and Kieryn Darkwater will guide these new contributors on their open source journey.

Win2Linux-Chooser

This project will make it easier for people who use a Windows desktop to transition to a Linux desktop. The team of new contributors participating in this project is Lorenzo Ferrara, Onat Ribar and Anish Tak. Snehit Sah, Aakarsh MJ and Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss will guide these new contributors.

Please follow their progress by reading their blog posts on KDE's planet, and by joining the relevant project communication channels if you would like details more frequently.

Article contributed by Benson Muite under the CC-BY-SA-4.0 license.