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Outreachy December 2025 to March 2026 Interns

21 interns were selected for this cohort.

Bioconductor
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Tosin Adeshile

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Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Lagos, Nigeria

Bioconductor mentor(s): Svetlana Ugarcina Perovic and Kate Rasheed and Victoria Poromon
Project: Microbiome Study Curation
Project skills: Literature review skills, Microbiome knowledge, Study design
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Dorcas Omonigbehin


Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Ogun state, Nigeria

Bioconductor mentor(s): Anne-Marie Sharp and Chioma Onyido and Chloe Mirzayi
Project: Microbiome Study Curation
Project skills: Literature review skills, Microbiome knowledge, Study design
Creative Commons
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Oreoluwa Oluwasina

GitHub

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Lagos,Nigeria

Creative Commons mentor(s): Timid Robot Zehta and possumbilities
Project: Improving Quantifying the Commons
Project skills: Git, GitHub Actions, Python
Debian
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Hellen Chemtai Taylor

Blog Twitter GitHub GitLab

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Nairobi,Kenya
IRC/Chat/Forum username: taychemu

Debian mentor(s): Tassia Camoes Araujo and Roland Clobus and Philip Hands
Project: Debian Images Testing with OpenQA
Project skills: Attention to detail, Communication in English, Debian instalation images, Desktop environments in Linux, git, Perl, Python, Quality assurance & functionality testing
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Isoken Ibizugbe

Twitter GitHub GitLab

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Nigeria
IRC/Chat/Forum username: Isoken

Debian mentor(s): Tassia Camoes Araujo and Roland Clobus and Philip Hands
Project: Debian Images Testing with OpenQA
Project skills: Attention to detail, Communication in English, Debian instalation images, Desktop environments in Linux, git, Perl, Python, Quality assurance & functionality testing
Firefox
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Anannya

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Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Rajasthan, India

Firefox mentor(s): Cyndi C. and issam
Project: Improve Firefox Features
Project skills: Git, Mobile development (iOS)
Git
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Olamide Caleb Bello

Blog Twitter GitHub

Pronouns: he/him/his
Location: Bukavu Barracks, Kano State, Nigeria.
IRC/Chat/Forum username: cloobTech

Git mentor(s): Christian Couder and Usman Akinyemi
Project: Refactor in order to reduce Git’s global state
Project skills: C programming language, Git, Shell scripting
GNOME
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Malika Asman

Twitter GitHub

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Kisumu, Kenya

GNOME mentor(s): Lucas Baudin
Project: Improve document signing in GNOME Document Viewer (Papers)
Project skills: C programming, Graphical User Interface, Rust programming
LibreOffice
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siddhi salunkhe

GitHub
Location: India
IRC/Chat/Forum username: siddhi

LibreOffice mentor(s): Heiko Tietze
Project: Transform the existing Hyperlink dialog into a standard SfxTabDialog
Project skills: C++, Git
OCaml
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Tambe Salome

Twitter GitHub

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Buea, South West Region, Cameroon

OCaml mentor(s): Patrick Ferris
Project: An OCaml library for reading and writing TIFF files
Project skills: Geospatial Science, OCaml, Systems Programming
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Arsalaan Alam


Pronouns: he/him/his
Location: Delhi, India

OCaml mentor(s): Thibaut Mattio
Project: Build a terminal-based monitoring dashboard for deep learning
Project skills: Frontend Development, Machine Learning, Programming
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Nirnay Roy

Blog Twitter GitHub

Pronouns: he/him/his

OCaml mentor(s): Thibaut Mattio
Project: Create an OxCaml backend for Raven
Project skills: Machine Learning, OCaml, Programming
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Linda Njau

GitHub

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Kenya, Nairobi

OCaml mentor(s): Xavier Van de Woestyne
Project: Improve YOCaml error reporting and data model
Project skills: English, Functional Programming, OCaml
OpenStack
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Rose Kimondo

Blog GitHub

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
IRC/Chat/Forum username: rose_kimondo_

OpenStack mentor(s): Goutham Pacha Ravi and Carlos da Silva
Project: Implement new features in the OpenStack Manila Dashboard
Project skills: git version control system, Linux, Python Programming
Wikimedia
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Nurah W


Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Abuja, Nigeria

Wikimedia mentor(s): Nat Hernández Clavijo and Jorge Gemetto
Project: Add Wikidata-editing features to Paulina, a user-friendly interface to discover authors and works
Project skills: Git, Javascript, Python3, Python Flask framework
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Levy Muguro

GitHub

Pronouns: he/him/his
Location: Nairobi, Kenya

Wikimedia mentor(s): Sai Phanindra and Bodhisattwa
Project: Improve the Wikisource Reader App
Project skills: Android app development, Kotlin, Python
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Mercy Oyelakin

GitHub

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Nigeria
IRC/Chat/Forum username: Mercy

Wikimedia mentor(s): Isaac Johnson and Stephane Bisson and Silvia Gutiérrez
Project: Micro-task Generator for Organizers on Wikipedia
Project skills: Python 3, REST APIs, Web development
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Sanjana Sogimatt

Blog Twitter GitHub

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Bengaluru,Karnataka, India

Wikimedia mentor(s): Sage Ross and Abishek Das and Esther Timothy
Project: Programs & Events Dashboard — Upgrade Ruby-on-Rails and other dependencies
Project skills: JavaScript, Ruby
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Harshita

GitHub

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh India

Wikimedia mentor(s): Kimmo Virtanen and Ademola Omosanya and Adiba Anjum
Project: Rewriting PendingChangesBot from PHP to Python
Project skills: Django, machine-learning, Python Programming
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Erik

Blog Twitter GitHub
Location: Abuja

Wikimedia mentor(s): Kimmo Virtanen and Ademola Omosanya and Adiba Anjum
Project: Rewriting PendingChangesBot from PHP to Python
Project skills: Django, machine-learning, Python Programming
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Purnama Sidi Rahayu

Twitter GitHub GitLab

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Indonesia
IRC/Chat/Forum username: Purnama Sidi

Wikimedia mentor(s): Andrew McAllister and MD ASIFUL ALAM and Akindele Michael and Henrik Thomasson and Gautham Mohanraj
Project: Scribe Client Mobile Application to Server Connections
Project skills: API Integration, Kotlin, Swift

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