Brief: Looking for an internship in open source projects? Here we list the best open source internships with all the relevant information.
Are you a college student looking to learn programming as well as help Open Source projects? Good thing is that there are several organizations that offer internships to students to work on open source projects.
I am going to list some of the popular open source internships here, both paid and unpaid.
Best open source internships for college students
I have listed the most useful information as possible but it is always a good idea to check the project website
1. Snowplow
Snowplow – Data Analytics company using a variety of languages and foss products/projects.
The internships run twice a year.
| Snowplow | Details |
|---|---|
| Eligibility Criteria | None |
| Internship period | (May through August), for a 6-8 week paid internship |
| Application deadline | |
| Stipend | Case by Case basis. |
| Location | Remote |
2. FSF
FSF – The oldest, mother of all organizations which started the free software movement. The Internship program runs thrice a year.
| FSF | Details |
|---|---|
| Eligibility Criteria | None |
| Internship period | 3 months ( September 11th to December 8th, 2017) |
| Application deadline | July 31, 2017 |
| Stipend | Unpaid |
| Location | Boston, U.S. or Remote |
3. X.org
X.org – Project which develops, maintains, supports the free software stack for accelerated graphics for all graphics hardware.
| X.org | Details |
|---|---|
| Eligibility Criteria | None |
| Internship period | 4 months nearly full-time work |
| Application deadline | Throughout the year |
| Stipend | $5000 in stages |
| Location | Remote |
4. RGSOC
RGSOC – Project to entice/enhance women participation developing Ruby on Rails or simply Rails web framework.
| RGSOC | Details |
|---|---|
| Eligibility Criteria | For Girls only. |
| Internship period | 3 months (from 1st July to 30th September) |
| Application deadline | Usally February |
| Stipend | Case by Case basis |
| Location | Remote |
5. SOCIS
SOCIS ESA – A pan-European organization working on exploration of space, human spaceflight etc.
| SOCIS | Details |
|---|---|
| Eligibility Criteria | Students from the European Union |
| Internship period | 3 months (from 1st July to 30th September) |
| Application deadline | Usually May |
| Stipend | depends on each mentoring organization, see below for more details |
| Location | Remote |
6. Dataone
Dataone – A project to collect, understand, collect earth observational data using a variety of sensors and testing and make cohesive sense out of it.
| Dataone | Details |
|---|---|
| Eligibility Criteria | None. |
| Internship period | 3 months (from 1st July to 30th September) |
| Application Period | Usally February |
| Stipend | $5000 |
| Location | United States |
7. OpenDaylight
OpenDaylight – FOSS Project which works to use and promote software-defined networking and network functions visualization.
| Opendaylight | Details |
|---|---|
| Eligibility Criteria | None. |
| Internship period | 3 months (from May 30th to August 29th) |
| Application Period Deadline | Usually January |
| Stipend | $5000 |
| Location | Remote |
8. Openwasp
OWASP – An organization dealing with various facets of web application security.
| Openwasp | Details |
|---|---|
| Eligibility Criteria | None. |
| Internship period | 3 months (from July 3, 2017 – September 6, 2017) |
| Application Period Deadline | Usually June |
| Stipend | $1500 |
| Location | N/A |
9. ICFOSS
ICFOSS – An autonomous organization set up by Government of Kerala for development and promotion of FOSS in India.
| ICFOSS | Details |
|---|---|
| Eligibility Criteria | None. |
| Internship period | 1.5 months |
| Application Period Deadline | Usually July |
| Stipend | Unpaid |
| Location | Remote |
10. ICFOSS Fellowship
ICFOSS – An autonomous organization set up by Government of Kerala for development and promotion of FOSS in India.
| FOSS Innovation Fellowship Programme | Details |
|---|---|
| Eligibility Criteria | Age should not exceed 30. |
| Internship period | 3 months (from 1st April to July 30th) |
| Application Period Deadline | Usually April |
| Stipend | INR Rs. 20k per month |
| Location | Kerala, India |
11. FOSSEE Internships
FOSSEE – An organization targeted towards development, maintenance and promotion of various FOSS projects based in the famous IIT-Mumbai.
| Fossee Internships | Details |
|---|---|
| Eligibility Criteria | Depends on project |
| Internship period | 2 months |
| Application Period Deadline | Usually February |
| Stipend | Unpaid. |
| Location | Mumbai, India |
12. The Center for Internet and Society
CIS – A Bangalore-based organization based organization looking at multidisciplinary research and advocacy at various levels.
| The Center for Internet and Society | Details |
|---|---|
| Eligibility Criteria | Diverse Educational backgrounds but need to know LibreOffice |
| Internship period | |
| Application Period Deadline | Throughout the year |
| Stipend | Unpaid |
| Location | Depends, some remote, some Bengaluru, India and New Delhi, India |
13. OPNFV
OPNFV – An organization dedicated to network functions virtualization
| OPNFV | Details |
|---|---|
| Eligibility Criteria | None. |
| Internship period | 3 months full-time or 6 months part-time |
| Application Period Deadline | Around the year |
| Stipend | $5500 in stages |
| Location | Remote |
14. Outreachy
Outreachy -Outreachy started in 2006, wrapped up and started up again in 2010. I did share an interview with Maria Glukova which shared her experience. Twice a year it runs and has in excess of 30+ interns per year from 20+ projects including Debian, Redhat, OpenStack and many others.
| Outreachy | Details |
|---|---|
| Eligibility Criteria | Women, trans and cisgendered women |
| Internship period | 3 months |
| Application Period Deadline | Usually in October |
| Stipend | $5500 |
| Location | Remote |
15. Deeproot
Deeproot started in 2000. Their main product is deepOfix Mail Server and is based on Debian.
| Deeproot | Details |
|---|---|
| Eligibility Criteria | A desire to work hard on solving a practical problem using Free Software |
| Internship period | 3 months – 10 months |
| Application Period Deadline | All round the year |
| Stipend | Unpaid |
| Location | Bangalore/Remote |
16. Google Summer of Code
GSoC -Google Summer of Code, the one which started it all.This time it got the highest number of students from India, in excess of 228+ students from India according to GSoC’s own stats.
The idea of giving those other GSoC programs are that almost all of the above projects were at one time or the other part of the GSoC program. GSoC is limited in the sense the program can run only from May to September while some want a whole-year around GSoC program and any limitations that Google has.
| GSoC | Details |
|---|---|
| Eligibility Criteria | None. |
| Internship period | 3 months |
| Application Period Deadline | Usually in April |
| Stipend | Depends on where you live, from $2400 to $6000 |
| Location | Remote |
I hope this article helped you in finding an Open Source internship. If you have some other open source internships to add to this list or add some details to the existing list, thanks to let me know in the comment section below.