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.
GNOME Outreach Project for Women
- 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."
Google Summer of Code
- 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."
Rails Girls Summer of Code
- Link: Program website
- Who is eligible:
- Deadline:
- Details:
DataONE Internships
- Link: Program website
- Who is eligible: Undergraduates, Graduate Students and Postgraduates (of 5 years or less)
- Deadline: Mar 18 2004
- 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.
Single-project Programs
The following programs are for a specific project.
Center for Open Science
- Link: Internship posting
- Who is eligible:
- Deadline:
- Other details:
If you're interested: You can contact Shauna (shauna on #openhatch, or via hello@openhatch.org), who volunteers with the COS, and can tell you about their projects and put you in touch with the maintainers.
Knight-Mozilla Fellows
- Link: http://opennews.org/fellowships/
- Who is eligible:
- Deadline:
- Other details:
Code for America
- Link: http://codeforamerica.org/fellows/apply/
- Who is eligible:
- Deadline:
- Other details:
Maybe some REUs have open source options?
Other resources to categorize
http://anitaborg.org/awards-grants/pass-it-on-awards-program/ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Start