The deadline to create an initial application has passed for the May 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
| Feb. 6, 2026 at 4pm UTC | Initial applications open |
| Feb. 13, 2026 at 4pm UTC | Initial application deadline |
| March 26, 2026 | Project list finalized |
| March 20, 2026 at 4pm UTC | Initial application results available |
| March 20, 2026 to April 15, 2026 | Contribute to projects |
| April 15, 2026 at 4pm UTC | Final application deadline |
| April 30, 2026 at 4pm UTC | Accepted interns announced |
| May 18, 2026 to Aug. 17, 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 April 15, 2026 at 4pm UTC.
Open Source Software for Bioinformatics
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Microbiome Study Curation
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Deadline is April 15, 2026 at 4pm UTC to record your contributions and create a final application.
Fedora is a Linux-based operating system, which offers Editions focused on three possible uses: workstation, server, and cloud.
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Develop a SLM/LLM using Ramalama RAG based off Fedora RPM Packaging Guidelines
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Deadline is April 15, 2026 at 4pm UTC to record your contributions and create a final application.
Enhancing the Fedora Release Schedule Planner API
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Deadline is April 15, 2026 at 4pm UTC to record your contributions and create a final application.
Revamp Fedora Badges project with modern fullstack architecture and dedicated MCP support
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Deadline is April 15, 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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Integrate manila client plugin commands into OpenStack Client
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Deadline is April 15, 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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Add support for file downloads to Servo
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Deadline is April 15, 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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Adding Rust to an existing C/C++ build system
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Deadline is April 15, 2026 at 4pm UTC to record your contributions and create a final application.
Calling overloaded C++ functions from Rust
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Deadline is April 15, 2026 at 4pm UTC to record your contributions and create a final application.
Code coverage of the Rust compiler at scale
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Deadline is April 15, 2026 at 4pm UTC to record your contributions and create a final application.
Fuzzing the a-mir-formality type system implementation
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Deadline is April 15, 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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Addressing the lusophone technological wishlist proposals
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Deadline is April 15, 2026 at 4pm UTC to record your contributions and create a final application.
Vector 2022 Codex PHP migration
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Deadline is April 15, 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.
Firefox is a free web browser dedicated to internet health and privacy.
Add an Open Tabs Panel to the Sidebar in Firefox Desktop
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Deadline is April 15, 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
Extend Ironic node deployment history api
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Deadline is April 15, 2026 at 4pm UTC to record your contributions and create a final application.
