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Line 5: The following programs allow participants to choose among a large number of participating projects. === Outreachy === ~~=== GNOME Outreach Project for Women ===~~ * Link: [https://wiki.gnome.org/~~OutreachProgramForWomen~~action/show/Outreachy program website] * Who is eligible: Anyone assigned female at birth or currently identifying as a woman, genderqueer, genderfluid or genderfree. Participants todo not need to be students, US citizens, or programmers. * Deadline: ~~March~~Two ~~31st,~~rounds ~~2014~~a year * Duration: ~~May 19 to August 18~~Three months * Stipend: $5500 * Details: "The internships offered are not limited to coding, but include user experience design, graphic design, documentation, web development, marketing, translation and other types of tasks needed to sustain a FOSS project. The internship is expected to be a full-time effort, meaning that the participants must be able to spend 40 hours a week on their project. Participants will work remotely from home." Remote. Line 16: === Google Summer of Code === * Link: [https://~~www~~developers.google~~-melange~~.com/~~gsoc~~open-source/~~homepage/google~~soc/~~gsoc2014~~ program website] * Who is eligible: Students with "some programming experience at the university level". You do not need to be a CS or IT major. You do not need to be a US citizen. * Deadline: ~~March~~Usually ~~21st,~~around ~~2014~~March * Duration: May 19 to August 18 * Stipend: $5500 * Details: "Google Summer of Code is a program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source projects. Historically, the program has brought together over 7,500 students with over 440 open source projects, to create over 50 millions of lines of code." Remote. Line 27: * Link: [http://railsgirlssummerofcode.org/ Program website] * Who is eligible: People identifying as female or socialized female are given priority. Not limited to students, but professional developers are excluded. (See [http://railsgirlssummerofcode.org/application-guide/#1 here] for more details.) * Deadline: ~~May~~varies ~~2nd,~~by ~~2014~~year * Duration: Three months, ~~starting~~July ~~1st of July~~through ~~2014~~September. Full-time commitment is encouraged but not necessary. * Stipend: $1500 per month; $4500 total * Details: "Just like in Google Summer of Code and Ruby Summer of Code, students will be paid so they're free to work on Open Source projects for a few months. Unlike those programs, the Rails Girls Summer of Code is about helping students to further expand their knowledge and skills by contributing to a great Open Source project (rather than producing highly sophisticated code)." Remote. Line 36: * Link: [http://www.dataone.org/internships Program website] * Who is eligible: Undergraduates, Graduate Students and Postgraduates (of 5 years or less) * Deadline: ~~Mar 18 2014~~March * Duration: 3 months (May 26 - ~~Jul 25th~~July - some flexibility) * Stipend: $5000 * Details: Interns undertake a 9 week program of work centered around one of the projects listed below. Each intern will be paired with one primary mentor and, in some cases, secondary and tertiary mentors. Interns need not necessarily be at the same location or institution as their mentor(s). Interns and mentors are expected to have a face-to-face meeting at the beginning of the summer, maintain frequent communication throughout the program and interns are required to work in an open notebook environment. Line 43: === Summer of Code in Space (SOCIS) === * Link: [http://sophia.estec.esa.int/~~socis2014~~socis/ Program website] * Who is eligible: Undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in educational institutions in certain European countries (see [http://sophia.estec.esa.int/socis2014/faq#socis_elig_student_who here] for more details). * Deadline: May 15(varies ~~2014~~by year) * Duration: 3 months (June-August) * Stipend: 4000 Euros Line 74: === Automattic (Wordpress.com) === * Link: [~~http~~https://vip.wordpress.com/~~2014/04/01/the-dream-internship-work-at-automattic-summer-2014~~internships/ Internship posting] * Who is eligible: "students currently enrolled in a program" are preferred, though anyone can apply. * Deadline: ~~May~~four ~~1st,~~periods ~~2014~~a ~~(the earlier the better)~~year * Duration: 8-10 weeks * Duration: "The internship runs 8-10 weeks between June 1st and August 1st, 2014, but we are flexible on the dates." * Stipend: No details given beyond "paid". * Other details: Remote. Two positions: developer intern and communications intern. Line 107: * Link: http://opennews.org/fellowships/ * Who is eligible: unknown (seems to be programmer-focused, and not limited to US citizens) * Deadline: ~~likely August 2014~~varies * Duration: 10 months, starting in Jan/Feb ~~2015~~ * Stipend: $60,000 plus [http://opennews.org/fellowships/info.html benefits] * Other details: "Knight-Mozilla Fellows spend 10 months embedded with our partner newsrooms. Our Fellows are developers, technologists, civic hackers, and data crunchers who are paid to work with the community inside and outside of their newsroom to develop open-source projects. Fellows work in the open by sharing their code and their discoveries, helping to strengthen and build journalism's toolbox." "Fellows work on a range of projects including data, mapping, research, and analysis of impact." Line 116: * Link: http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/open-society-fellowship * Who is eligible: "Applicants should possess a deep understanding of their chosen subject and a track record of professional accomplishment. Past and current fellows have included journalists, activists, academics, and practitioners in a variety of fields." World-wide, but proficient English is required. * Deadline: August ~~4th, 2014~~ (every six months) * Duration: unknown * Stipend: $80,000 or $100,000 * Other details: "A fellowship project might identify a problem that has not previously been recognized, develop new policy ideas to address familiar problems, or offer a new advocacy strategy. Project themes should cut across at least two areas of interest to the Open Society Foundations. Among these are human rights, government transparency, access to information and to justice, and the promotion of civil society and social inclusion." === Code for America Fellows === * Link: http://codeforamerica.org/fellows/apply/ * Who is eligible: unknown * Deadline: mid-July * Duration: 11 months, starting in January each year * Stipend: $50,000 for 2015 * Other details: "The Fellowship is a service-year program where civic-minded developers, designers, and product managers create small startup teams and partner with a local government for a year-long collaboration. Fellows and government staff work together to build apps, foster new approaches to problem solving throughout City Hall, and tackle issues the community is facing. In the past, teams have worked on solving for access to social services, alternatives to incarceration, and new avenues for public input."▼ === Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Technology and Innovation Fellowship === * Link: http://www.consumerfinance.gov/jobs/technology-innovation-fellows/ * Who is eligible: US citizens * Deadline: unknown * Duration: 11two ~~months, starting Jan 2015~~years * Stipend: unknown * Other details: "For technologists interested in leveraging technology to help further our mission of making financial products and services work for consumers. We're seeking talented individuals with diverse backgrounds for positions in software product development, cybersecurity, and data." ▲* Other details: "The Fellowship is a service-year program where civic-minded developers, designers, and product managers create small startup teams and partner with a local government for a year-long collaboration. Fellows and government staff work together to build apps, foster new approaches to problem solving throughout City Hall, and tackle issues the community is facing. In the past, teams have worked on solving for access to social services, alternatives to incarceration, and new avenues for public input." == Project Grants == Line 138 ⟶ 147: * Link: [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG program website] * Who is eligible: Criteria include "Individual or team of up to 4 individuals. Demonstrated involvement in the Wikimedia movement, with good community-standing. Willing to provide full legal name and address. Able to independently complete the project." * Deadline: ~~March 31st, 2014~~varies * Duration: "Scoped to 6 months, with potential to renew for 6 more if need is shown." * Stipend: "Maximum request USD 30,000. No minimum." Line 160 ⟶ 169: * Stipend: "from several hundred to several thousand dollars per project" * Other details: "We are looking for creative ideas that foster and support the Drupal software project and its amazing community. Specifically we are looking to fund projects that: Educate people about Drupal; Engage the community to learn more about and become more involved in the project; Engage current and potential community members in learning more about the community through events such as DrupalCamps, Drupal Jams, Code sprints, FOSS days, etc.; Unique projects that build the Drupal community; Expose new industry sectors to the benefits of the Drupal software and its community." === NLnet Funding === * Link: http://www.nlnet.nl/foundation/can_do.html * Who is eligible: unknown * Deadline: rolling * Duration: unknown * Stipend: up to 30.000 euro for project grants * Other details: 3 categories of grants: Event sponsorship ("Eligible types of events include hack-a-thons, conferences, lectures, plugfests, and other technical or community building events"), projects ("NLnet can fund or co-fund various types of projects, such as software development or educational activities."), and travel grants ("NLnet can fund participation for qualified individuals to relevant international events such as IETF, OGF, W3C meetings, but also to developer meetings or conferences."). === OpenITP === Line 169 ⟶ 187: * Stipend: between $5000 USD and $30000 USD * Other details: "OpenITP project grants are meant to support specific technical efforts to improve users' ability to circumvent censorship and surveillance on the Internet. "Technical" doesn't have to mean software or hardware -- for example, we also consider efforts to improve user experience through translation, testing, projects to improve documentation, meetings that get developers together in person to solve specific problems, etc. The main thing we're looking for is that your proposed project is finite (e.g. has a deadline, is scoped) and contributes to OpenITP's core mission of enabling freedom of communication on the Internet." === The Perl Foundation Grants === * Link: http://www.perlfoundation.org/rules_of_operation * Who is eligible: unknown * Deadline : grants are evaluated every two months i.e. January, March, May, July, September and November. * Duration : unknown * Stipend : from several hundreds to several thousands of dollars * Other details : A call for grant proposals is published with detailed dates here : http://news.perlfoundation.org/ == Other Opportunities == The following opportunities do not quite fit the above categories. ~~For instance, they may not be open source-focused (though they'll always be at least open source inclusive) or designed to support active work.~~ === Ascend Project === * Link: http://ascendproject.org/about/index.html * Who is eligible: "There are multiple intersections of applicability; race/class/sexual orientation among them, this project is for motivated people, problem-solvers, who have felt pushed away, restricted by circumstances, or unsure how to get more deeply involved in open source technical contribution" * Deadline: unknown * Stipend: $50/day for 6 weeks === HP Helion OpenStack scholarship === * Link: http://go.hpcloud.com/scholarship-registration * Who is eligible: "All women who are enrolled full time in an information systems or computer science (or equivalent) major course of study and capable of developing a project using OpenStack technology and/or Cloud Foundry are eligible." * Deadline: varies * Stipend: $10,000 USD === Anita Borg Pass-It-On awards === Line 206 ⟶ 247: === Stripe Open Source Retreat === [https://stripe.com/blog/stripe-open-source-retreat Stripe ~~annoucement~~announcement] "We rely on a lot of open-source software at Stripe, and over time we’ve contributed back our own share of patches and projects. We decided we’d like to do more, though, so we’re launching an open-source retreat program." Line 218 ⟶ 259: "While decisions will be based on impact and merit, we’d be especially psyched to fund people from backgrounds often underrepresented in the open-source community." === Igalia Summer Internships === [http://www.igalia.com/nc/igalia-247/news/item/announcing-igalias-summer-intern-positions/ 2015 Igalia Open Source Internships] Igalia is an open source consultancy; most summers, it offers one or more interships (of ~350 hours), for people who are in the process of earning a CS or similar degree. In 2015, this is an opportunity to get more involved in WebKit. * Who is eligible: students with a background in Computer Science, Information Technology or similar fields, who have completed at least 50% of their degree. Proficiency in written English is required. * Duration: 350 hours * Compensation: 2100-4000 euros (total, not per-month) * Details: on-site work (in Spain) or remote work are both possibilities. * Note: we welcome applications from everyone eligible and interested, and explicitly welcome applications from members of groups which are under-represented in Free Software. * Apply by: July 31st, 2015 == Travel Grants == A subpage for travel grants can be found [https://openhatch.org/wiki/Opportunities/Travel_Grants here]. == More Resources == Line 223 ⟶ 280: * [https://www.opentechfund.org/submit/alternative-sources-support OpenTechFund's alternative sources of support] * [http://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2014/07/30/0 "Here are some grants you could apply for" by Sumana Harihareswara] * [http://www.nlnet.nl/foundation/network.html NLnet alternative funding sources] * [https://adainitiative.org/category/getting-involved-in-open-tech-and-culture/scholarships-and-grants/ Ada Initiative list]