Opportunities

This page is a list of financially supported opportunities (usually internships) for people (usually students) to work on open source projects.

Cross-project Programs

The following programs allow participants to choose among a large number of participating projects.

Link: program website
Who is eligible: Anyone assigned female at birth or currently identifying as a woman, genderqueer, genderfluid or genderfree. Participants to *not* need to be students, US citizens, or programmers.
Deadline: March 19, 2014
Duration: May 19 to August 18
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."

Link: 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 21st, 2014
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."

Link: 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 here for more details.)
Deadline: May 2nd, 2014
Duration: Three months, starting 1st of July 2014. 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)."

Link: Program website
Who is eligible: Undergraduates, Graduate Students and Postgraduates (of 5 years or less)
Deadline: Mar 18 2014
Duration: 3 months (May 26 - Jul 25th - 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.

The following programs are for a specific project.

Link: http://opennews.org/fellowships/
Who is eligible: unknown (seems to be programmer-focused, and not limited to US citizens)
Deadline: likely August 2014
Duration: 10 months, starting in Jan/Feb 2015
Stipend: $60,000 plus 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."