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 March 15, 2021.
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
| Feb. 1, 2021 at 4pm UTC | Initial applications open |
| Feb. 8, 2021, 4 p.m. UTC | #OutreachyChat on Twitter |
| Feb. 22, 2021 at 4pm UTC | Initial application deadline |
| March 18, 2021 | Project list finalized |
| March 15, 2021 to April 16, 2021 | Contribute to projects |
| April 16, 2021 at 4pm UTC | Final application deadline |
| May 17, 2021 at 4pm UTC | Accepted interns announced |
| May 24, 2021 to Aug. 24, 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 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:
This is a preview of the projects which will begin accepting contributions and internship applications on March 15, 2021 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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Implement distributed tracing for Qpid Proton C++
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Ceph is distributed, software-defined storage that allows users to turn commodity hardware into a massively scalable storage cluster with no single point of failure. This storage solution is able to speak object, block, and file which unifies all storage needs under a single system with self-managing and self-healing characteristics. Ceph is already integrated with many systems, including the ever-growing world of cloud offerings like OpenStack.
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Automate the Visual Testing of Ceph-Dashboard
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Ceph Orchestrators Integration tests using Gherkin language
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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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Performance comparison between OpenTelemetry and OpenTracing instrumentation libraries
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UI testing for Jaeger
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A community-led collection of recipes, build infrastructure and distributions for the conda package manager.
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Documenting the conda-forge ecosystem
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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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Debian Continuous Integration Platform Improvements
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Quality assurance for biological and medical applications inside Debian
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Eclipse Adoptium is a set of open-source projects that build, test and distribute high-quality, freely available OpenJDK-based binaries to a rapidly expanding set of consumers across a broad set of platforms.
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Deep Learning for AQA Test Triage (Codename ‘Deep AQAtik’)
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Simplify & Gamify AQA External Tests (Codename ‘Tweetest’)
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Fedora is a Linux-based operating system, which offers versions focused on three possible uses: workstation, server, and cloud.
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Develop Designs for the Fedora Community Outreach Revamp
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Firefox is a free web browser dedicated to internet health and privacy.
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Enhance Accessibility Support for Fenix (Firefox for Android)
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Improve Firefox Screenshots
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Improve the Firefox Downloads Panel
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Improve the Firefox site data manager UI
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Modernize internationalization in SpiderMonkey's regular expression engine
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Revamp Firefox Accounts Emails with Modernized Templates, TypeScript, & Storybook
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GNU Guix is a functional package manager written in Guile Scheme.
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Guix Data Service: revision processing instrumentation and performance
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Inkscape: On-canvas Align and Distribute Upgrade
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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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Migration of natural language query translation code to OpenNMT 2.0
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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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Create a linux scheduler test suite to understand functionality and performance of Core Scheduling
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Improvements to DRI-devel (aka kernel GPU subsystem)
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Improving the HDMI CEC compliance tests and the CEC emulation of the vivid driver
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kernel self test for ksm (kernel same-page merging)
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Climate change speedrun: benchmark and profiling of a C++ MRV library
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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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Add templating to the OCaml documentation generator
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Create opam package search
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Improve the ocaml.org website
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ODK-X lets you build custom apps to gather, manage, and visualize your data just as well in the field as you do in the office. From cold chain management to longitudinal patient tracking to geographic data collection on mosquito releases, ODK-X helps you build your custom data management app.
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Improve ODK-X Documentation and Learning Paths
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Improve ODK-X Suitcase Application
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Improve, Simplify, and Automate ODK-X Sync-Endpoint Deployments
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New Date Prompts for ODK-X Survey
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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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OpenStackSDK support for Manila
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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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Validating Oppia’s lessons while drafting and implementing a plan for large scale outreach
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Write Frontend Tests for Directives and Components
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Write Frontend Tests for Services
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Public Lab is a community where you can learn how to investigate environmental concerns. Using inexpensive DIY techniques, we seek to change how people see the world in environmental, social, and political terms. We are an open network of community organizers, educators, technologists and researchers working to create low cost solutions for monitoring air, water and land.
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Expand and refine Tag/topic system of PublicLab.org
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PyMC3 is a Python package for Bayesian statistical modeling and Probabilistic Machine Learning focusing on advanced Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) and variational inference (VI) algorithms. Its flexibility and extensibility make it applicable to a large suite of problems.
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Improve PyMC3 example notebooks for PyMC3 4.0 and Aesara
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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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Write a style checker for QEMU's Meson-based build system
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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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Innovation at UNICEF is about doing new things to solve problems and improve the lives of children around the world. It is about matching today’s challenges with tomorrow’s solutions.
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Create map visualizations of digital public good developments and implementations
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Extend the usability of the Juniper Toolset
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Ushahidi offers products that enable local observers to submit reports using their mobile phones or the internet, while simultaneously creating a temporal and geospatial archive of events. The platform is often used for crisis response, human rights reporting, and election monitoring.
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Improve performance on the Ushahidi Platform Client
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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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Build a tool for analyzing and visualizing reader navigation on wikipedia
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Create notebook based tutorials that help users access and work with data on Wikimedia projects
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Synchronising Wikidata and Wikipedias using pywikibot
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