If, unfortunately, you did not get selected for GsoC, SoK offers a great opportunity to started and work on an open source project and win yourself a KDE t-shirt and certificate.

What if there is a tool which makes it easier to manage and organize your participation on SoK?  Sayak Banaerjee, a KDE developer, has created an app called  “KDE Students Program", code named Pandora, which does exactly that. The app will be soon available on season.kde.org.

Banaerjee has listed the features of his app:

• It allows creation of multiple programs, with more than one active at one point of time.
• It provides an option for users to sign up as a student or a mentor. A mentor application has to be approved by a SoC admin.
• Students can submit one or more proposals. Approved mentors can select projects they want to mentor.
• Once the student application deadline is hit, SoC admins will go through all proposals and accept/reject them.
• Once the coding period starts, the mentors will then coordinate with their students.
• Upon completion of the program, mentors will evaluate the students’ performance and mark them as passed/failed accordingly.

If you wish to test it locally, you can get the source code at http://projects.kde.org/season-kde-org.

With this app, joining Season of KDE and working on your favourite project will just become easier!