This page contains information specific to the December 6 to March 6, 2017 round of Outreachy internships. For all other information about the program, including the application process and the application form, please see the main program page.

Here is the page with the resources that were used to help us spread the word about this round.

Outreachy is hosted by Software Freedom Conservancy with special support from Red Hat and the GNOME Foundation. We invite organizations and companies to sponsor internships in the next round.

This round is generously sponsored by the following organizations and companies.

Ceiling Smasher : Mozilla

Promoters : Bloomberg, Google, Intel, Red Hat, Wikimedia Foundation, Zulip by Kandra Labs

Includers: Cadasta, Codethink, Debian, Fedora, FFmpeg, Free Software Foundation, IBM, Node.js Foundation, Open Source Robotics Foundation, OpenStack Foundation, Xen Project

Schedule

September 12 participating organizations are announced and application system opens September 12 - October 17 applicants need to get in touch with at least one project and make a contribution to it October 17 application deadline at 7pm UTC October 17 - November 8 applicants are encouraged to continue making contributions for the project they applied for;

submitted applications are open for editing November 8 accepted participants announced on this page at 4pm UTC December 6 - March 6 internship period

Payments Schedule

Software Freedom Conservancy will be administering the payments of the $5,500 (USD) stipends each participant will get. Software Freedom Conservancy will be in touch with you before the internships begin to get the information it needs for sending you payments. You will have a choice of requesting your payment to be sent as a check (in USD or your local currency), wire transfer, or via PayPal. If you decide to change your payment instructions after you've already provided them, you should use the subject line "Outreachy: change payment instructions for [Your Full Name]" for your e-mail.

Software Freedom Conservancy typically makes its payments on a "NET-30" basis, which means it can take up to 30 days from the date Outreachy sends in an authorization for the payment to make a payment. Recognizing internship structure of Outreachy, Software Freedom Conservancy will make best efforts to send out payments on the early side of the time intervals specified below. However, depending on the workload it has, payments might end up being sent on any date in the specified time interval. You will receive an e-mail from Software Freedom Conservancy when each payment is initiated. Bank transfers from the U.S. can take 1-2 weeks to process, so please wait two weeks after the email before contacting Software Freedom Conservancy about lost payments. Please do not contact Software Freedom Conservancy with inquiries about the status of your payment before the end of each time interval. The table below provides the time intervals during which payments for Outreachy interns will be sent:

After Before Amount December 16 January 9 $500 will be sent to participants who have begun their internships January 27 February 20 $2250 will be sent to participants in good standing with their mentors March 17 April 10 $2750 will be sent to participants who have successfully completed their internships

The decision about good standing and successful completion will be made by the mentor in consultation with the program coordinators. An intern can request the coordinators to re-review this decision.

Accepted Participants

Congratulations to 46 participants accepted for Outreachy!

Cadasta

coordinator: Kate Chapman

KMH Perera (manoramahp), Colombo, Sri Lanka - Improve Testing for Cadasta Platform - Kate Chapman and David Palomino

Kavindya Prashadi Bandara (kavindya89), Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia - Create PDFs for Printing from Project Schema - Brian O'Hare and Oliver Roick

Debian

coordinators: Nicolas Dandrimont and Tom Marble

Elizabeth Ferdman (liza_dev), Berkeley, CA, USA - Clean Room for PGP and X.509 (PKI) Key Management - Daniel Kahn Gillmor, Jonathan McDowell, and Daniel Pocock

Maria Glukhova (siamezzze), Lappeenranta, Finland - Reproducible Builds - Mattia Rizzolo

Urvika Gola ( UrviG), New Delhi, Delhi, India - Lumicall Improvements - Juliana Louback, Bruno Magalhães, and Daniel Pocock

Fedora

coordinators: Laura Abbott and Máirín Duffy

Bhakti Bhikne (bhakti), Pune, Maharashtra, India - Cockpit UX: Firewall - Andreas Nilsson and Dominik Perpeet

Suzanne Hillman (shillman, wispfox), Waltham, MA, USA - Fedora Hubs UX: Regional Hubs - Máirín Duffy

FFmpeg

coordinators: Stefano Sabatini, Michael Niedermayer, and Reynaldo Verdejo

crelloc (crelloc), Bakersfield, CA, USA - Improve Selftest Coverage - Michael Niedermayer

Pallavi Kumari (atana), Hyderabad, Telangana, India - Audio Fingerprinting Filters - Michael Niedermayer

Gluster

coordinator: Amye Scavarda

Menaka M (menaka), Tiruppur, Tamil Nadu, India - Introducing Instrumentation Tooling - Shyam Ranganathan

GNOME

coordinator: Marina Zhurakhinskaya

Mandy Wang (Mandy), Shanghai, China - Enhance Chinese localization and update guidelines - Tong Hui

Linux kernel

coordinator: Julia Lawall

Mozilla

Node.js

coordinator: Tracy Hinds

Anna Magdalena Kedzierska (AnnaMK), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain - Improve the VM module in Node.js core - Franziska Hinkelmann

Jessica Quynh Tran (jessicaquynh), Montréal, QC, Canada - Improving serial communication in Node.js by diving into libuv - Myles Borins

Larissa Yvette (larissayvette), Bamenda, North West, Cameroon - Improve Node.js test coverage - Rich Trott

Open Source Robotics Foundation

coordinator: Carlos Agüero

Sally Kong, Philadelphia, PA, USA - Improve support for lights in Gazebo - Louise Poubel

Karishma Sharma (krshma), Gurdaspur, Punjab, India - Add support for message throttling - Carlos Agüero

OpenStack

coordinators: Mahati Chamarthy and Victoria Martínez de la Cruz

Karen Chan (karen, karenc), Cambridgeshire, UK - Improve S3 compatibility layer in Swift/Swift3 - Tim Burke

Annapoornima Koppad (annakoppad), Bangalore, Karnataka, India - Improving Keystone jobs for new scenarios - Rodrigo Duarte Sousa and Raildo Mascena

Marianne Linhares (mariannelm), Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brazil - Pluggable Data Sources in Sahara - Elise Gafford

Namrata Sitlani (Namrata), Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India - Zun Container Management Service - Davanum Srinivas

Wikimedia

coordinators: Sumit Astana and Tony Thomas

Zareen Farooqui (zareen), Somerville, MA, USA - Five subprojects with the Reading Department - Tilman Bayer and Jon Katz

Anna Liao (aliao), Calgary, AB, Canada - Create Python library to serialize Wikimedia Quiz format, GIFT quiz format, etc. - John Mark Vandenberg and Marielle Volz

Sejal Khatri (sejal), Pune, Maharashtra, India - Provide cumulative statistics for all programs a user has participated in in P&E Dashboard - Jonathan Morgan and Sage Ross

Neslihan (nes), İstanbul, Turkey - Hacking: Wiki Radio - Adam Baso and Nirzar Pangarkar

Xen Project

coordinator: Lars Kurth

Ronald Rojas (rojas), New York City, NY, USA - George Dunlap

Zulip

coordinator: Sumana Harihareswara

Saumya Bhatnagar (Sam1301), New Delhi, Delhi, India - Add attachment and photo uploads, cropping tools, and “share to Zulip” functionality - Tim Abbott, Kunal Gupta, and Lisa Neigut

Andrea Longo, San Francisco, CA, USA - Zulip API and API Documentation Enhancements - Tollef Fog Heen and Sumana Harihareswara

Alicja Raszkowska (trueskawka), Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland - Improving communication flow for large organizations and working on the React Native app - Tim Abbott and Neeraj Wahi

Participating Organizations

The following organizations offered internships in this round. See each organization's page linked to below for more information about the projects and mentors for remote Outreachy internships. The main program page has details about eligibility requirements and some advice about how to choose an organization and project.

In addition to the internships offered by Outreachy, on-site internships and full-time jobs are available with the participating organizations or sponsoring companies.