The deadline to create an initial application has passed for the December 2024 to March 2025 Outreachy internships. We are no longer accepting initial applications for internships. We encourage you to sign up for the announcements mailing list to get an email when the next round opens.
Why apply to Outreachy? > Outreachy Eligibility Rules > Find a Mentor and Internship Project
| Jan. 8, 2023 at 3pm UTC | Coffee chat: Starting a career in open source |
| Aug. 14, 2024 at 4pm UTC | Initial applications open |
| Jan. 15, 2024 at 3pm UTC | Live Q&A for FOSS communities mentoring Outreachy interns |
| Jan. 17, 2024 at 3pm UTC | Live Q&A for Outreachy applicants - initial application tips |
| Jan. 22, 2024 at 3pm UTC | Live Q&A for Outreachy mentors |
| Feb. 21, 2024 at 3pm UTC | Live Q&A for Outreachy applicants - contribution period tips |
| Aug. 21, 2024 at 4pm UTC | Initial application deadline |
| Sept. 27, 2024 | Project list finalized |
| Oct. 1, 2024 at 4pm UTC | Initial application results available |
| Oct. 1, 2024 to Oct. 29, 2024 | Contribute to projects |
| Oct. 29, 2024 at 4pm UTC | Final application deadline |
| Nov. 26, 2024 at 4pm UTC | Accepted interns announced |
| Dec. 9, 2024 to March 7, 2025 | Internships period |
Applicant guide and Internship guide. Recommended sections to read:
Each project will require a different level of experience with different skills.
Experience level: You do not need to be an expert to apply. Each project will need a different skill experience level:
| No knowledge required | |
| Concepts | |
| Experimented | |
| Comfortable | |
| Challenge |
Required skills: You don't need to have all project skills in order to apply. Each project skill will be listed as:
| Required | Mentors will only select you as an intern if you have this skill |
| Preferred | Mentors prefer to select an intern who has this skill, but they may select you if you don't have this skill |
| Nice to have | Mentors will select you, even if you don't have this skill |
If you're unsure whether you have the project skills needed, reach out the mentor via email and ask them. It's better to ask than to not apply!
Outreachy is offering internship projects in the following areas:
The following projects are accepting contributions and applications from new applicants until Oct. 29, 2024 at 4pm UTC.
Open Source Software for Bioinformatics
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Developing MolEvolvR for protein analysis: extending the web app, and creating a companion R package
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Microbiome Study Curation
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OpenTelemetry is a collection of tools, APIs, and SDKs. Use it to instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data (metrics, logs, and traces) to help you analyze your software’s performance and behavior.
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Contribute to setup guide for development of OpenTelemetry
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OpenTelemetry Registry
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Creative Commons is a nonprofit building tools to promote digital creativity, sharing, and innovation
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Consolidate and implement design system across websites
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Debian is a volunteer-driven project building "the Universal Operating System", a 100% free and open source distribution, based on the Linux, FreeBSD and Hurd kernels, for all devices, ranging from mobile phones, personal computers, to mainframes and distributed cluster.
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Automatic Indi-3rd-party driver update
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Make the Debian main website more attractive by switching to HuGo as site generator
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The Ersilia Open Source Initiative is a Spanish charity focused on strengthening the research capacity for infectious and neglected diseases by developing and implementing novel artificial intelligence and machine learning tools.
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Improving the Ersilia Molde Hub Backend
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Firefox is a free web browser dedicated to internet health and privacy.
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Work on a new feature for our performance comparison tool
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Extend Mozilla's automation tool, FoxPuppet
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Implement the Iterator.range proposal in SpiderMonkey
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Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
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Convert unit tests to use the clar testing framework
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Finish adding a 'os-version' capability to Git protocol v2
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GNOME is an innovative free software desktop environment that is design-driven and easy to use.
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Add Debug Adapter Protocol (DAP) to GNOME Builder
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Add Git Commit Workflow to GNOME Builder
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Implement the SVG2 text layout algorithm in librsvg
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Improve GNOME Calendar sidebar
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Improve modularization and structure of Papers, the GNOME Document Viewer
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HOT is an international team dedicated to humanitarian action and community development through open mapping. Open source is at the heart of the HOT Community. We create and build open source tools and run our projects with an open source ethos.
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Improve communication strategies of open mapping initiatives for humanitarian purposes
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LibreOffice is a lively and diverse community, delivering a full-featured cross-platform office suite. We value new contributors, just as we prize Open Source and Open Standards.
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Add more templates to Writer
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Add support for "Excel Tables" to LibreOffice Calc
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Create new dialog to edit Table Styles in LibreOffice
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Import Markdown files into LibreOffice Writer
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Improve Word Processor Test Coverage
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OCaml is a (high-level, typed, functional) programming language. The OCaml community contributes to the implementation of the language, as well as the surrounding ecosystem of tools and libraries.
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Improve Windows Support for Eio
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Structural diffing algorithm for OCaml libraries API
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ODK-X lets you build custom apps to gather, manage, and visualize your data just as well in the field as you do in the office. From cold chain management to longitudinal patient tracking to geographic data collection on mosquito releases, ODK-X helps you build your custom data management app.
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Create Android Tests for ODK-X’s Android tools
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Finalize ODK-X mobile apps UI Design Consistency
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The Open Information Security Foundation is a non-profit organization created to build community and to support open source security technologies like Suricata, the world-class IDS/IPS network monitoring engine.
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Improve Suricata Rules Language
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Suricata Hardening
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By creating tools to enable the creation/distribution of high-quality scalable online lessons, Oppia works to make high-quality education available to those who lack access to it. The Oppia codebase is written using Python and AngularJS/Angular, and is built on top of Google App Engine.
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Create and illustrate effective and engaging online lessons on Science and Financial Literacy
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Expanding User Reach, Engagement, and Retention
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Qubes OS is a security- and privacy-focused free and open source operating system that provides a safe platform for communication and information management.
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Improve Qubes OS System Health Monitoring - UX and Implementation
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Progress towards reproducible builds
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Reduce logging of Disposable qubes
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Servo is a web rendering engine written in Rust, with WebGL and WebGPU support, and adaptable to desktop, mobile, and embedded applications.
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Add support for language-specific `text-transform` behavior
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Improve Servo's Minibrowser
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Improve code linting in Servo’s CI
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Wikimedia is a global movement whose mission is to bring free educational content to the world, via Wikipedia and other projects. Help improve our technical backstage!
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Create Scribe-Data Wiktionary based translation and synonym commands
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Creation of Codex (Wikimedia design system) components + libraries in Penpot (from Figma)
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Design tailored reading experiences for different accessibility (a11y) requirements
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Improve observability of Wiki Education Dashboard
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Improve the Wiki Education Dashboard test suite
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QuickStatements 3.0 public documentation
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Support organization and coordination of the QW2025 Conference
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Zulip is an organized chat app for distributed teams. We value engaged, responsive mentorship, and you can expect to receive disciplined code reviews by highly experienced engineers. Since Zulip is a team chat product, your internship experience with the Zulip project will be highly interactive.
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Complete the next-generation Zulip mobile app, using Flutter
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Improve the Zulip server and web application
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