The deadline to create an initial application has passed for the December 2025 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. 25, 2025 at 4pm UTC | Initial applications open |
| Sept. 1, 2025 at 4pm UTC | Initial application deadline |
| Oct. 10, 2025 | Project list finalized |
| Oct. 7, 2025 at 4pm UTC | Initial application results available |
| Oct. 7, 2025 to Nov. 3, 2025 | Contribute to projects |
| Nov. 3, 2025 at 4pm UTC | Final application deadline |
| Dec. 1, 2025 at 4pm UTC | Accepted interns announced |
| Dec. 8, 2025 to March 6, 2026 | 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. 3, 2025 at 4pm UTC.
Open Source Software for Bioinformatics
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Microbiome Study Curation
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Deadline is Nov. 3, 2025 at 4pm UTC to record your contributions and create a final application.
Creative Commons is a nonprofit building tools to promote digital creativity, sharing, and innovation
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Improving Quantifying the Commons
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Deadline is Nov. 3, 2025 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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Debian Images Testing with OpenQA
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Deadline is Nov. 3, 2025 at 4pm UTC to record your contributions and create a final application.
Firefox is a free web browser dedicated to internet health and privacy.
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Improve Firefox Features
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Deadline is Nov. 3, 2025 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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Refactor in order to reduce Git’s global state
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Deadline is Nov. 3, 2025 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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Improve document signing in GNOME Document Viewer (Papers)
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Deadline is Nov. 3, 2025 at 4pm UTC to record your contributions and create a final application.
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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Implement Xara X import filter
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Deadline is Nov. 3, 2025 at 4pm UTC to record your contributions and create a final application.
Transform the existing Hyperlink dialog into a standard SfxTabDialog
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UI feature: variable units on numerical input fields
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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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An OCaml library for reading and writing TIFF files
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Deadline is Nov. 3, 2025 at 4pm UTC to record your contributions and create a final application.
Create an OxCaml backend for Raven
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Improve YOCaml error reporting and data model
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Build a terminal-based monitoring dashboard for deep learning
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Deadline is Nov. 3, 2025 at 4pm UTC to record your contributions and create a final application.
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 Logging and Rule Keyword Parity
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Deadline is Nov. 3, 2025 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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Extend Ironic node deployment history api
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Implement new features in the OpenStack Manila Dashboard
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Typelevel is a community of people interested in functional programming. Functional programming is a style of programming that is inspired by ideas from mathematics, but you do not need a maths background to be a functional programmer. We write code in the Scala language.
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Create a faster immutable list data structure
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Deadline is Nov. 3, 2025 at 4pm UTC to record your contributions and create a final application.
Extend Feral's support for event-driven Google Cloud Run functions
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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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Add Wikidata-editing features to Paulina, a user-friendly interface to discover authors and works
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Deadline is Nov. 3, 2025 at 4pm UTC to record your contributions and create a final application.
Improve the Wikisource Reader App
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Micro-task Generator for Organizers on Wikipedia
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Programs & Events Dashboard — Upgrade Ruby-on-Rails and other dependencies
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Rewriting PendingChangesBot from PHP to Python
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Scribe Client Mobile Application to Server Connections
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