<div dir="ltr"><div>It's so great to see Caio stepping up to lead Season of KDE for the first time. Please everyone support him and help us onboard new contributors!</div><div><br></div><div>Valorie</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 6:06 AM Caio Jordão Carvalho <<a href="mailto:caiojcarvalho@gmail.com">caiojcarvalho@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello, everyone!<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">After a one-year hiatus since the last edition of Season of KDE in 2018, we have started to make plans for the next edition!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">But before announcing the program, we need to have a significant number of mentors and interesting projects. Now we have an Ideas Page (<a href="https://community.kde.org/SoK/Ideas/2020" target="_blank">https://community.kde.org/SoK/Ideas/2020</a>) where mentors can list their projects. Remember that SoK is more general than GSoC, so these ideas are not limited only to coding tasks and you can include projects related to documentation, artwork, translation, reports and other types of work as well as code.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Now we have this timeline schedule and the announcement post is going to be published soon, so we need to include the ideas on the page now.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><span id="gmail-m_2057524225951974185gmail-docs-internal-guid-5b606deb-7fff-8301-2cdd-a2b054b0e4b4"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The timeline is:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">2nd December 2019 - 3th January 2020: </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Participant and Mentor Application period</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">6th January 2020: </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Projects announced</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">8th January 2020, 00:00 UTC: </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">SoK work period begins</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">17th February 2020, 23:59 UTC: </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">End of work</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">21th February 2020: </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Results announced</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">28th February 2020: </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Certificates issued</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Beginning of </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Q3 2020</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">: Merchandise and Swag sent out by courier</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">That's all for now, folks!</span></p></span></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Best,</div><div dir="auto">Caio</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><table style="border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(127,140,141);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;border:0px;padding:0px;max-width:580px" width="95%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="line-height:normal" align="left"><font size="2"><span style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Caio Jordão de Lima Carvalho </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br>- <a href="http://carvalho.site" target="_blank">http://carvalho.site</a><br></span></span></font></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div>