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Outreachy May 2026 to August 2026 Internships

For the current list of internships, see the current round page

Timeline

Feb. 6, 2026 at 4pm UTCInitial applications open
Feb. 13, 2026 at 4pm UTCInitial application deadline
March 26, 2026Project list finalized
March 20, 2026 at 4pm UTCInitial application results available
March 20, 2026 to April 15, 2026Contribute to projects
April 15, 2026
at 4pm UTC
Final application deadline
May 1, 2026 at 4pm UTCAccepted interns announced
May 18, 2026
to Aug. 17, 2026
Internships period

Intern Payment Schedule

May 18, 2026Internships starts
June 9, 2026Feedback #1 due
June 29, 2026 Feedback #2 due
July 14, 2026$3000 stipend will be issued to interns with successful feedback #1
July 25, 2026 Feedback #3 feedback due
Aug. 29, 2026$4000 stipend will be issued to interns with successful feedback #3
Aug. 17, 2026 Feedback #4 feedback due
Aug. 17, 2026Internships end

Outreachy is a program of Software Freedom Conservancy. We invite companies, non-profits, academic institutions, and FOSS communities to sponsor Outreachy.

Past Participating Communities

Bioconductor

Open Source Software for Bioinformatics

Learn more on the Bioconductor community landing page.

Bioconductor closed project #1

Microbiome Study Curation

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Deadline was April 15, 2026 at 4pm UTC to record your contributions and create a final application.

Skill description
Impact on intern selection
Experience Level
Literature review skills
Preferred
Microbiome knowledge
Nice to have
Study design
Nice to have


Fedora

Fedora is a Linux-based operating system, which offers Editions focused on three possible uses: workstation, server, and cloud.

Learn more on the Fedora community landing page.

Fedora closed project #1

Develop a SLM/LLM using Ramalama RAG based off Fedora RPM Packaging Guidelines

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Deadline was April 15, 2026 at 4pm UTC to record your contributions and create a final application.

Skill description
Impact on intern selection
Experience Level
Python
Required
Deep Learning
Preferred
Data Analysis
Preferred
Git
Preferred


Fedora project #2

Enhancing the Fedora Release Schedule Planner API

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Deadline was April 15, 2026 at 4pm UTC to record your contributions and create a final application.

Skill description
Impact on intern selection
Experience Level
Python
Required
REST APIs
Required
Git
Preferred
CICD
Nice to have
Openshift
Nice to have


Fedora project #3

Revamp Fedora Badges project with modern fullstack architecture and dedicated MCP support

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Deadline was April 15, 2026 at 4pm UTC to record your contributions and create a final application.

Skill description
Impact on intern selection
Experience Level
Python
Required
Git
Preferred
NodeJS
Preferred


Firefox

Firefox is a free web browser dedicated to internet health and privacy.

Learn more on the Firefox community landing page.

Firefox closed project #1

Add an Open Tabs Panel to the Sidebar in Firefox Desktop

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Deadline was April 15, 2026 at 4pm UTC to record your contributions and create a final application.

Skill description
Impact on intern selection
Experience Level
Modern JavaScript including promises
Preferred
HTML
Preferred
CSS
Preferred
Version control tool: Git
Preferred


OpenStack

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

Learn more on the OpenStack community landing page.

OpenStack closed project #1

Extend Ironic node deployment history api

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Deadline was April 15, 2026 at 4pm UTC to record your contributions and create a final application.

Skill description
Impact on intern selection
Experience Level
Python programming
Required
Git version control system
Preferred


OpenStack project #2

Integrate manila client plugin commands into OpenStack Client

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Deadline was April 15, 2026 at 4pm UTC to record your contributions and create a final application.

Skill description
Impact on intern selection
Experience Level
Python programming
Required
Git
Required
Linux
Required


Servo

Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications.

Learn more on the Servo community landing page.

Servo closed project #1

Implement `AudioWorklet` in Servo.

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Deadline was April 15, 2026 at 4pm UTC to record your contributions and create a final application.

Skill description
Impact on intern selection
Experience Level
Rust
Preferred
Python
Preferred


The Rust Project

The Rust Project is an open-source, community-driven initiative focused on developing the Rust programming language.

Learn more on the The Rust Project community landing page.

The Rust Project project #1

Calling overloaded C++ functions from Rust

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Deadline was April 15, 2026 at 4pm UTC to record your contributions and create a final application.

Skill description
Impact on intern selection
Experience Level
Rust Programming
Preferred
C++ Programming
Preferred
Building Code from Multiple Programming Languages
Preferred


The Rust Project project #2

Code coverage of the Rust compiler at scale

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Deadline was April 15, 2026 at 4pm UTC to record your contributions and create a final application.

Skill description
Impact on intern selection
Experience Level
Rust
Required
LLVM code coverage
Preferred


The Rust Project project #3

Fuzzing the a-mir-formality type system implementation

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Deadline was April 15, 2026 at 4pm UTC to record your contributions and create a final application.

Skill description
Impact on intern selection
Experience Level
Rust familiarity
Required
Introductory type system requirements
Preferred
Fuzzing
Nice to have


The Rust Project project #4

Improve the security of GitHub Actions of the Rust Project

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Deadline was April 15, 2026 at 4pm UTC to record your contributions and create a final application.

Skill description
Impact on intern selection
Experience Level
Rust
Required
GitHub Actions
Required
Web development
Required


Wikimedia Foundation

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!

Learn more on the Wikimedia Foundation community landing page.

Wikimedia Foundation closed project #1

Addressing the lusophone technological wishlist proposals

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Deadline was April 15, 2026 at 4pm UTC to record your contributions and create a final application.

Skill description
Impact on intern selection
Experience Level
Python
Preferred
JavaScript
Preferred
Django
Nice to have
Wikitext
Nice to have