The deadline to create an initial application has passed for the December 2026 Outreachy internship cohort. 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
| Aug. 24, 2026 at 4pm UTC | Initial applications open |
| Aug. 31, 2026 at 4pm UTC | Initial application deadline |
| Oct. 2, 2026 | Project list finalized |
| Oct. 12, 2026 at 4pm UTC | Initial application results available |
| Oct. 12, 2026 to Nov. 9, 2026 | Contribute to projects |
| Nov. 9, 2026 at 4pm UTC | Final application deadline |
| Nov. 30, 2026 at 4pm UTC | Accepted interns announced |
| Dec. 7, 2026 to March 8, 2027 | 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 Nov. 9, 2026 at 4pm UTC.
Open Source Software for Bioinformatics
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Microbiome Study Curation
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Deadline is Nov. 9, 2026 at 4pm UTC to record your contributions and create a final application.
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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DebConf/MiniDebConf websites
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Deadline is Nov. 9, 2026 at 4pm UTC to record your contributions and create a final application.
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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Implement promisor remote fetch ordering
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Deadline is Nov. 9, 2026 at 4pm UTC to record your contributions and create a final application.
Improve how command arguments and options are scanned and parsed
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Reduce Git’s global state to enable Git's libification
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Deadline is Nov. 9, 2026 at 4pm UTC to record your contributions and create a final application.
GNOME is an innovative free software desktop environment that is design-driven and easy to use.
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Support switching primary GPU used by GNOME Shell at runtime
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Deadline is Nov. 9, 2026 at 4pm UTC to record your contributions and create a final application.
The Linux kernel is the most basic layer of the Linux operating system. It encompasses many things: hardware drivers, file systems, security, task scheduling, and much more. Most projects involve coding in C, and may require some operating system knowledge.
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Remove most known unused tracepoints from the Linux kernel
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Deadline is Nov. 9, 2026 at 4pm UTC to record your contributions and create a final application.
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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Improving TIFF Support for OCaml's Geospatial Libraries
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Deadline is Nov. 9, 2026 at 4pm UTC to record your contributions and create a final application.
OpenStack is an open source software for building public and private clouds. What does that mean? We're a collection of open source projects that integrate to help organizations deploy and run clouds for computing, networking, and storage (both block storage for providing volumes to VMs and object storage for storing objects such as images or music files). With OpenStack, you can control large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a data center, all managed through a dashboard that gives administrators control while empowering their users to provision resources through a web interface
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Implement JSON Schema Validation in OpenStack Manila REST APIs
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Deadline is Nov. 9, 2026 at 4pm UTC to record your contributions and create a final application.
Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications.
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Make Servo's developer tools more efficient
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Deadline is Nov. 9, 2026 at 4pm UTC to record your contributions and create a final application.
The Rust Project is an open-source, community-driven initiative focused on developing the Rust programming language.
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Experiment with Rust/C++ Overloading API Compatibility
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Deadline is Nov. 9, 2026 at 4pm UTC to record your contributions and create a final application.
Extend Formality completeness
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Deadline is Nov. 9, 2026 at 4pm UTC to record your contributions and create a final application.
Extend Rust stdlib custom allocator support
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Deadline is Nov. 9, 2026 at 4pm UTC to record your contributions and create a final application.
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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Enable audio and video uploads in the Commons Android app
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Deadline is Nov. 9, 2026 at 4pm UTC to record your contributions and create a final application.
Improve the Wikisource Reader Android App and API
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Deadline is Nov. 9, 2026 at 4pm UTC to record your contributions and create a final application.
The projects in this section already have many strong candidates they have worked with. If you are just starting out with the Outreachy application process, we don't suggest you apply for these projects. If you have been working with the project mentors, please continue to work with them. Make sure to submit your in-progress contributions through the community landing page, and complete your final project application.
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!
Create a Wikipedia Claim-Source Verification Library
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Deadline is Nov. 9, 2026 at 4pm UTC to record your contributions and create a final application.
