The Google Summer of Code, often abbreviated to GSoC, is an international annual program in which Google awards stipends to students who successfully complete a free and open-source software coding project during the summer. The program is open to university students aged 18 or over.

Season of Docs provides support for open source projects to improve their documentation and gives professional technical writers an opportunity to gain experience in open source. Together we raise awareness of open source, of docs, and of technical writing.

Google Summer of Earth Engine is a research program for Indian university students & researchers to get a chance to work with leading research organizations in the country working in environment, conservation, water resources and agricultural domains over 3 months of summer on a project and get paid to do so!

GirlScript Summer of Code is the 3 month long Open Source program during summers conducted by GirlScript Foundation, started in 2018, with an aim to help beginners get started with Open Source Development while encouraging diversity. Throughout the program, participants contribute to different projects under guidance of experienced mentors. Top participants get exciting goodies and opportunities.

GirlScript Winter of Contributing is a three-month newly established initiative by GirlScript Foundation to be conducted during winters. GWOC encourages individuals to share their knowledge and ideas to develop technical skills and gain valuable experience in the field of tech education. Over the course of the program, participants can contribute to a variety of themes under the guidance of an expert facilitator.

Organizations join LF projects because they want to take an active role in supporting the growth and evolution of open technologies

Outreachy is a diversity initiative that provides paid, remote internships to people subject to systemic bias and impacted by underrepresentation in the technical industry where they are living.

The mainframe design principles of security, stability, scalability, and performance are important to these leading organizations, and having the mainframe interoperable in a hybrid infrastructure enables leading organizations to realizes it’s benefits. Open Mainframe Project believes this can only be achieved as a community through open source.

Battlesnake

The RBC & Battlesnake Developer Fellowship is an exciting new initiative aimed at recognizing and supporting women, female-identifying and non-binary developers in launching the next stage of their Battlesnake journey.

MLH

The MLH Pre-Fellowship is a 4-week fellowship preparation program for aspiring technologists. You'll build out your portfolio of personal projects & experiment with new technologies by collaborating in small groups through a short hackathon sprint.

Processing Foundation

The Processing Foundation Fellowships support artists, coders, and collectives in visionary projects that conceive a new direction for what Processing as a software and a community can do. Fellowships emphasize projects that expand Processing and its affiliated projects, as well as the evolution of a Fellow’s practice. Work done by Fellows is supported through funding and mentorship from The Processing Foundation.

Alibaba Summer of Code is a global campaign focusing on engaging students directly into open source software development. Under the guidance of the mentors from Alibaba, students can use the summer to participate in a series of open source projects with the core members of the communities and experience software development in the real world.

Build up your developer profile and become a codeheat hero! Winners are announced bi-monthly.

FOSSASIA is an organization developing Open Source software applications and Open Hardware together with a global community from its base in Asia. It is our goal to provide access to open technologies, science applications and knowledge that improve people's lives. We want to enable people to adapt and change technology according to their own ideas and needs and validate science and knowledge through an Open Access approach.