KDE

Preferred license: GNU General Public License (GPL)
The K Desktop Environment is a project to provide a complete set of applications for a desktop system on Unix systems. Since its inception in 1996, the project has grown and is now one of the largest Open Source/Free Software projects in existence. The next major release, KDE 4.0, provides a great opportunity for students and developers to implement new ideas, but it also presents a challenge in creating an API that is maintainable and must endure for 4+ years. KDE 4.0 also plans on expanding to non-X11 systems, so new opportunities and challenges for development present themselves.
Actual source code produced by the student participants in Google Summer of Code™ for KDE can be found here.
 
Current Projects
avKode - A Phonon Backend using FFMPEG
by Allan Sandfeld Jensen, mentored by Matthias Kretz
by Harish Kukreja, mentored by Zack Rusin
by Chu Xiaodong, mentored by Albert Astals Cid
by Hui Jin, mentored by William Stephenson
by Fredrik Edemar, mentored by Boudewijn Rempt
by Emanuele Tamponi, mentored by Bart Coppens
Teamwork-Mode for KDevelop
by David Nolden, mentored by Matt Rogers
by Will Entriken, mentored by Lubos Lunak
by Sheldon Cumming, mentored by Aaron Seigo
by George Wright, mentored by Kurt Pfeifle
by Fengguang Wu, mentored by Lubos Lunak
by Eduardo Pereira Habkost, mentored by Cornelius Schumacher
by Jakob Petsovits, mentored by Oleksandr Dymo
by Thomas Kadauke, mentored by Kevin Krammer
by Chani Armitage, mentored by Matt Rogers
by Vincenzo Di Massa, mentored by Marco Lohse
by Rainer Endres, mentored by Kévin Ottens
by Tom Stephenson, mentored by Oleksandr Dymo
by Alfredo Beaumont Sainz, mentored by David Faure
by Tuomas Suutari, mentored by Jesper K Pedersen
by Ian Monroe, mentored by Jeff Mitchell
KJS Debugger
by Matt Broadstone, mentored by Maksim Orlovich