Open Source Programs

Discover opportunities to contribute, learn, and grow in the open source community

All Programs

Google Summer of Code

Google Summer of Code

A global program that matches students with open source, free software, and technology-related organ...

March - September
$1,500 - $3,300
StudentsCodingMentorship
Outreachy

Outreachy

Provides internships in open source and open science to people subject to systemic bias and impacted...

December - March & May - August
$7,000
DiversityInternshipRemote
FOSSEE Summer Fellowship

FOSSEE Summer Fellowship

This is funded by National Mission on Education through ICT, MoE, Government of India....

March - April
Jobs and Internships Opportunities
Job OpportunityInternshipHigher Studies
Hacktoberfest

Hacktoberfest

A month-long celebration of open source software run by DigitalOcean, encouraging meaningful contrib...

October
Swag rewards
BeginnersOpen SourceSwag
MLH Fellowship

MLH Fellowship

A remote internship alternative for aspiring software engineers, working with open source maintainer...

Year-round (12-week sessions)
$5,000
StudentsRemoteFellowship
Season of KDE

Season of KDE

Annual program offering students the opportunity to contribute to KDE community projects....

January - March
Certificate
KDEOpen SourceStudents
LFX Mentorship

LFX Mentorship

Linux Foundation mentorship program connecting experienced open source developers with mentees....

Year-round
$3,000 - $6,600
LinuxMentorshipOpen Source
Google Season of Docs

Google Season of Docs

Program connecting open source projects with technical writers to improve documentation....

March - November
Project-based
DocumentationTechnical Writing
GSOC of FOSSASIA

GSOC of FOSSASIA

Mentorship program focused on introducing new developers to FOSS projects in Asia....

June - August
$1,500
FOSSAsiaStudents
Google Code-in

Google Code-in

A global, online contest introducing pre-university students (ages 13-17) to open source software de...

November - January
Certificates and prizes
Pre-universityCodingContest
Rails Girls Summer of Code

Rails Girls Summer of Code

A global fellowship program aimed at bringing more diversity into Open Source, focusing on women and...

July - September
€1,500 per month
DiversityRuby on RailsFellowship
Open Roberta

Open Roberta

An initiative encouraging children to code by using robots such as Lego Mindstorms and other program...

Year-round
N/A
EducationRoboticsChildren
Curriki

Curriki

An online platform providing free and open educational resources primarily in support of K-12 educat...

Year-round
N/A
EducationK-12Open Educational Resources
Mozilla Open Leaders

Mozilla Open Leaders

A program that mentors open project leaders to help them build sustainable communities around their ...

Twice a year
N/A
LeadershipOpen SourceMentorship
Processing Foundation Fellowships

Processing Foundation Fellowships

Supports artists, coders, and educators to develop projects that expand the reach and impact of the ...

Varies
$1,000 - $3,000
ArtCodingEducation
Red Hat Open Source Contest

Red Hat Open Source Contest

Encourages students to contribute to open source projects, with mentorship and rewards for successfu...

Annual
Varies
StudentsOpen SourceMentorship
The Linux Foundation Training (LiFT) Scholarships

The Linux Foundation Training (LiFT) Scholarships

Provides training scholarships to individuals who show interest in Linux and open source but do not ...

Annual
Training courses
LinuxTraining
TOR Summer of Privacy

TOR Summer of Privacy

The Tor Project, in collaboration with The Electronic Frontier Foundation, has taken part in Google ...

April - September
$5,500
StudentsSecurityMentorship
Data One Summer Programme

Data One Summer Programme

Undergraduates, graduates and recent postgraduates are invited to apply to work remotely with DataON...

May - July
$5,000
GraduatePost-GraduateCollabarative
Julia Summer Of Code

Julia Summer Of Code

The Julia Seasons of Contributions (JSoC) are the seasonal programs for funding and/or mentoring dev...

Annual
$5,000 - $9,000
GraduatePost-GraduateCollabarative
Summer Of Haskell

Summer Of Haskell

The Summer of Haskell is an effort by Haskell.Org to reach out to students and encourage them to con...

Annual
$1.500 - $3,300
StudentsCollaborativeMentorship
Open Summer Of Code

Open Summer Of Code

A 4-week summer programme in July, that provides Belgian based students the training, network and su...

July - November
$1.000 - $2,000
StudentsCollaborativeMentorship
Redox OS Summer of Code

Redox OS Summer of Code

A 8-week summer programme, that provides opportunity to contribute to Redox or to a Redox-adjacent p...

Annual
$1.000 - $2,000
ExperiencedRustKernel
Google Summer of Earth Engine

Google Summer of Earth Engine

Google Summer of Earth Engine is a research program for Indian university students & researchers to ...

May - July
Rs. 1,20,000
StudentsResearchMentorship