In order to see all project information, you must fill out a short initial application.
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? > Start your initial application > Find a Mentor and Internship Project
| Feb. 18, 2019 | Applicants start making contributions to internship projects |
| March 5, 2019 | Last date for new mentoring community listings |
| March 12, 2019 | Last date for mentors to submit new internship project listings |
| March 26, 2019 at 4pm UTC | Application deadline. Last day to finish any contributions to internship projects. Applications who made a contribution must submit the rest of their project application by this date. |
| April 2, 2019 at 4pm UTC | Late application deadline for specific projects (see below for which projects are accepting late applications) |
| March 26, 2019 to May 6, 2019 | Applicants are encouraged to continue making contributions |
| May 6, 2019 | Accepted interns announced on the alums page at 4pm UTC |
| May 20, 2019 to Aug. 20, 2019 | Internships period |
| May 20, 2019 | Internships starts |
| June 3, 2019 | Initial feedback due |
| July 3, 2019 | Interns who have started their internship will receive the $1000 initial stipend |
| July 8, 2019 | Mid-point feedback due |
| Aug. 7, 2019 | Interns with successful mid-point feedback will receive the $2000 midpoint stipend |
| Aug. 20, 2019 | Internships end |
| Aug. 23, 2019 | Final feedback due |
| Sept. 22, 2019 | Interns with successful final feedback will receive the $2500 final stipend |
Outreachy is hosted by the Software Freedom Conservancy with special support from Red Hat, GNOME, and Otter Tech. We invite companies and free and open source communities to sponsor internships in the next round.
You can read about what it's like to apply to Outreachy:
You may want to brush up on your skills for contributing to free and open source software communities. Each project will use a different set of skills, and some mentors may be willing to teach you skills. Projects and the skills they use change each round. The most common skills used in projects last round were:
You may also want to purchase a DRM-free copy of "Forge Your Future With Open Source" by VM (Vicky) Brasseur.
Each project mentor looks for applicants who have different skills. Sometimes a skill is a hard requirement for an applicant to have. Other times, a mentor might prefer an applicant to have a skill, but they would accept an applicant as an intern who didn't have that skill. Some skills are "nice to have" meaning it would be great if applicants have this skill, but the mentor doesn't have a strong preference.
Each project will require a different level of experience with a particular skill. Experience levels are indicated with numbers:
Mentors are willing to teach this skill to applicants with no experience at all
Applicants should have read about the skill
Applicants should have used this skill in class or personal projects
Applicants should be able to expand on their skills with the help of mentors
Applicants who are experienced in this skill will have the chance to expand it further
The following projects have an extended deadline, and will be accepting contributions and applications from new applicants until April 2, 2019 at 4pm UTC.
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 Continuous Integration: user experience improvements
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Deadline is April 2, 2019 to record your contributions and create a final application.
Reproducible Builds
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This project has a low number of applicants, and the project mentor welcomes new applicants to contribute.
Deadline is April 2, 2019 to record your contributions and create a final application.
The following projects are accepting contributions and applications from new applicants until March 26, 2019 at 4pm UTC.
Fedora is a Linux-based operating system, which offers versions focused on three possible uses: workstation, server, and cloud.
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Extend unit tests for libmodulemd
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Deadline is March 26, 2019 to record your contributions and create a final application.
Fedora Happiness Packets
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Deadline is March 26, 2019 to record your contributions and create a final application.
LibreHealth is an umbrella organization for Health IT projects
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Help us Improve LibreHealth Toolkit Documentation
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Deadline is March 26, 2019 to record your contributions and create a final application.
Improve Code and Documentation for the EHR system
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Deadline is March 26, 2019 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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Test the OCaml compiler with random tests and a reference interpreter
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Deadline is March 26, 2019 to record your contributions and create a final application.
OpenStack is 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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OpenStack Manila Integration with OpenStack CLI (OSC)
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Deadline is March 26, 2019 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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Documentation improvements to the ~20 top 70 most viewed MediaWiki Action API pages on-wiki
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Deadline is March 26, 2019 to record your contributions and create a final application.