In order to see all project information, you must fill out a short initial application.
at 4pm UTC is the deadline for submitting an initial application. Applicants will be notified of their initial application status on Oct. 1, 2020.
Until your initial application is approved, some information about the internships will be hidden, including full project details, mentor contact information, and how to make contributions to internship projects.
Why apply to Outreachy? > Outreachy Eligibility Rules > Find a Mentor and Internship Project
| Aug. 28, 2020 at 4pm UTC | Initial applications open |
| Aug. 31, 2020, 4 p.m. UTC | #OutreachyChat on Twitter |
| Sept. 21, 2020 at 4pm UTC | Initial application deadline |
| Oct. 6, 2020 | Project list finalized |
| Oct. 1, 2020 to Oct. 31, 2020 | Contribute to projects |
| Oct. 31, 2020 at 4pm UTC | Final application deadline |
| Nov. 23, 2020 at 4pm UTC | Accepted interns announced |
| Dec. 1, 2020 to March 2, 2021 | 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 don't 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:
This is a preview of the projects which will begin accepting contributions and internship applications on Oct. 1, 2020 at 4pm UTC. You'll be able to see all project details at that point if your initial application has been approved.
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is a charitable non-profit organization founded in 1999 to provide software for the public good. With 350+ open source projects, 730+ foundation members, and 7000+ project committers, the ASF provides an established framework for intellectual property and financial contributions that simultaneously limits potential legal exposure for our project committers. Individuals from around the world collaborate through a distributed, asynchronous, community-driven process known as "The Apache Way" to develop freely available enterprise-grade software published under the commercially friendly and permissive open source Apache License, benefitting millions of users worldwide.
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Add a datastore for Elasticsearch in Apache Gora
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Deadline is Oct. 31, 2020 at 4pm UTC to record your contributions and create a final application.
People building microservices at scale need tracing across distributed systems to understand how and why a system is misbehaving. Source code instrumentation can been complex, fragile, expensive, and difficult to maintain, which is why the CNCF has two tracing projects: OpenTracing and Jaeger. OpenTracing is a vendor-neutral open standard for distributed tracing. Jaeger is a concrete set of tracers and a trace storage backend, for usage on applications and microservices instrumented with OpenTracing.
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Jupyter notebooks repository
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Deadline is Oct. 31, 2020 at 4pm UTC to record your contributions and create a final application.
Research alternative data visualizations for tracing data
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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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Quality Assurance and Continuous Integration for Applications in Life Sciences and Medicine
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Deadline is Oct. 31, 2020 at 4pm UTC to record your contributions and create a final application.
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a nonprofit with a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom. We defend the rights of all software users.
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Code in PHP to help nonprofits accept and manage cryptocurrency donations
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Deadline is Oct. 31, 2020 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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Accelerate rename detection and the "range-diff" command in Git
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Improve droping and rewording commits in Git interactive rebase
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InterMine integrates biological data sources and makes it easy to query, visualise, and analyse the data via a graphical user interface or via APIs in Python, R, Perl, and more.
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Create InterMine user training docs
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Review, update, and integrate InterMine developer documentation
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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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Improving the HDMI CEC compliance tests and the CEC emulation of the vivid driver
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Upstreaming the Actions Semi Owl series SPI controller driver
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Mozilla is a global, nonprofit organization dedicated to making the Web better. We emphasize principle over profit and believe that the Web is a shared public resource to be cared for, not a commodity to be sold. We work with a worldwide community to create open source products like Mozilla Firefox, and to innovate for the benefit of the individual and the betterment of the Web.
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Create Tests for Fenix using Espresso, UIautomator and Kotlin
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Extend Glean Dictionary
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Improve the User Experience of HTTPS-Only Mode
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Set up internationalization for Firefox Profiler recording panel and front-end
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By creating tools to enable the creation/distribution of high-quality scalable online lessons, Oppia works to make high-quality education available to those who lack access to it. The Oppia codebase is written using Python and AngularJS/Angular, and is built on top of Google App Engine.
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Conduct user studies while drafting and implementing a plan for large scale outreach
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Improving Oppia Android Developer Workflow
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Improving Oppia Frontend testing coverage
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QEMU is a machine emulator and virtualizer and also acts as an umbrella organization for the KVM Linux kernel module. QEMU can run operating systems and programs made for one machine (e.g. an ARM board) on a different machine (e.g. your own PC).
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Implement the ioregionfd API in the Linux kvm.ko kernel module
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The Tor Project is a US 501(c)(3) non-profit organization advancing human rights and freedoms by creating and deploying free and open source anonymity and privacy technologies, supporting their unrestricted availability and use, and furthering their scientific and popular understanding.
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Help Tor Project support our users
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The mentor did not list any required, preferred, or nice-to-have skills.
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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Analyze 'need help' requests from Wiki Education Dashboard
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Evaluate Microsoft Playwright as replacement for our browser automation
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Refactor Selenium tests and perform cleanup
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Yocto Project is an open source project whose goal is to create and provide templates, tools, and methods to make it easy to create embedded Linux distributions. The project works heavily with upstream providers and downstream participants, cooperatively manages software packages with the OpenEmbedded Project, and is developed by hundreds of people worldwide. It is mostly written in Python and C, but the most important skill to bring is the willingness to work with others.
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Enhance Yocto Project License Tracing
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