[SOK25] Season of KDE 2025 starts! A warm welcome to our new contributors ...

[Johnny Jazeix]

Dear SOK25 Contributors, welcome to Season of KDE :)

Today, we're proud to announce the selected projects for SOK25 -- see
below for a list of all projects selected this season, but don't skip
over the information here in your excitement!

SOK25 Work officially starts this Friday 17 January. Over the next 10
weeks you will work closely with the mentors of your projects. Never
hesitate to ask your mentors or us (kde-soc-management at kde.org) when you
have questions.

For those of you whose projects haven't been selected, it is not the end
of the road. You can still contribute to KDE projects outside this
program. Contact the teams, discuss ideas, and implement them! We'd love
to have you join our community :)

Note: It is very important to subscribe to the 'kde-soc' mailing list at
<https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-soc> as soon as possible.
This is the official communication channel for Season of KDE and we will
send all updates there.

And now, for the selected projects, drum roll please ...

These exciting projects from 14 new contributors have been
selected to participate in this year's edition of the program: 5
Mankala, 3 Win2Linux, 1 Kdenlive, 1 KdeEcoTest, 3 KEcoLab and 1
AudioTube.

(5) *Mankala*
         * Ashutosh Singh: "Improve the mancala GUI"
         * Rishav Chaudhury: "Add Kalah variant to Mankala Engine"
         * Shubham Shinde: "Add Pallanguzhi variant to Mankala Engine"
         * Srisharan VS: "Add Pallanguli/Pallanguzhi variant to Mankala Engine"
         * Nidhish Chauhan: "Improve the mancala GUI and add a multiplayer mode"
           - Mentors: Benson Muite and João Gouveia

(3) *Win2Linux* (Collaborative Project)
         * Anish Tak, Lorenzo Ferrara and Onat Ribar will work
together to develop a new application to help migrate from Windows to
Linux
           - Mentors: Snehit Sah, Aakarsh MJ, Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss

(1) *Kdenlive*
         * Swastik Patel : "Animated Transition Preview for Kdenlive"
           - Mentor: Jean-Baptiste Mardelle

(1) *KdeEcoTest*
         *  Oreoluwa Oluwasina : "KdeEcoTest Enhancement and
finalizing of test scripts."
           - Mentors: Emmanuel Charruau, Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss

(3) *KEcoLab* (Collaborative Project)
         * Utkarsh Umre, Shubhanshu Gupta, Roopa Dharshini: "Improve
KEcoLab Documentation"
          - Mentors: Karanjot Singh, Aakarsh MJ, Pradyot Ranjan,
Kieryn Darkwater, Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss

(1) *AudioTube*
         * Chinmay Tiwari: "Improve the AudioTube homepage"
           - Mentor: Jonah Brüchert

To all of our new contributors, thank you very much for your drive to
gain experience and improve FOSS at the same time. The mentors and
mentorship team, as well as the broader KDE community, are sure you'll
create something fantastic over the course of this season.

Looking forward to all of your achievements in the coming weeks!

Cheers,

Johnny
(on behalf of the mentorship team)

Hashtag: #SOK25
(uppercase O for screen readers)