OSS Programs

Google Summer of Code

International program where contributors 18 plus are paid by Google to work on open source projects over the summer.

Outreachy

Diversity focused program offering paid remote internships in open source and open science.

MLH Fellowship

Remote fellowship where students and early career developers work on real world open source or production code.

Linux Foundation Mentorship Program

Mentorship program that matches contributors with maintainers on Linux Foundation projects.

Summer of Bitcoin

Global online program that introduces university students to Bitcoin open source development and design.

European Summer of Code

Program that funds interns to work on applied AI and open source research projects with European hubs.

GirlScript Summer of Code

Three month open source program by GirlScript Foundation for beginners to contribute to many projects.

GirlScript Winter of Code

Open source contribution program during winter focused on building educational content and code.

Season of KDE

Mentorship program by KDE community for code and non code projects similar in style to GSoC.

Processing Foundation Fellowship

Fellowships that support individuals or small teams building creative coding projects with Processing or p5.js.

Igalia Coding Experience Program

Summer program by Igalia giving newcomers experience working on open source browsers and graphics projects.

FOSSEE Summer Fellowship

Internship and fellowship program at IIT Bombay where students work on FOSSEE free software projects.

Google Summer of Earth Engine

Pilot program for Indian students to work on Earth Engine based environmental and geospatial projects.

Summer of Nix

NixOS Foundation program where participants work in remote teams to improve Nix ecosystem and package free and open source software.

Redox Summer of Code

Redox OS program that uses project donations to fund students or contributors to work on Redox OS and ecosystem projects.

Advent of Code

Annual December programming puzzle event.

Open Source Promotion Plan

Program by Chinese Academy of Sciences for college students.

JGEC Winter of Code

Winter open source program by Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College.

Open Mainframe Project Mentorship

Mentorship for mainframe and COBOL projects under Linux Foundation.

Linux Kernel Mentorship

Linux kernel developer mentorship.

Apertre 2.0

30-day OSS event Resourcio Community.

DMP by C4GT Code for GovTech

India govt tech projects.

Hacktoberfest

A global event run by DigitalOcean that encourages developers of all levels to contribute to open source projects during October. Participants earn digital badges, tree plantings, and swag by completing pull requests and making meaningful contributions to the community.

CNCF Mentorship

Cloud Native Foundation.

IIIT Kalyani Winter of Code

GDSC IIIT Kalyani.

Build for Bharat Fellowship

Bharat Digital govt.

GitHub Campus Experts

A leadership program for university students who want to establish and expand tech communities on their campuses. Participants gain public speaking skills, leadership training, and access to GitHub resources while fostering innovation and collaboration among their peers.

24 Pull Requests

December PR event.

FOSSASIA Codeheat

Continuous contest.

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