Skip to content

Latest commit

 

History

History
252 lines (170 loc) · 17.7 KB

README.md

File metadata and controls

252 lines (170 loc) · 17.7 KB

-> This is a collection of Open Source events and Hackathons. Students always forget the dates of Open Source event and recall after the date is over to fill the form.


👣 January 🌱

  • 🔆 Open Source Event

    1- Google Summer of Code link

       Organisation form start
    
    • Google Summer of Code is a global program focused on introducing students to open source software development. Students work on a 3-month programming project with an open-source organization during their break from university.

    2- JIIT Open-Source Developers Circle (JODC)

      Student Application form open
    
    • JIIT Month of Code is an online programme by the open-source club of Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, JIIT Noida-128, the JODC, focused on introducing students to open source software development and documentation writing.

    3- GirlScript Summer of Code link

      Mentor Application Start
    
    • GirlScript Summer of Code is the 3 months 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.

    4- Outreachy Link

    • Outreachy provides internships to work in open source and free software. Outreachy internships are open to applicants around the world. Interns work remotely and are not required to move. Interns are paid a stipend of $5,500 USD for the three-month internship. Interns have a $500 USD travel stipend to attend conferences or events.

🙋‍♂️ February 🌿

  • 🔆 Open Source Event

    1- STEP(Google) link

      Deadline for applications
    
    • Our STEP program is a developmental opportunity for first- and second-year undergraduate students with a passion for technology—especially students from historically underrepresented groups in the field.

    2- Google Summer of Code link

      List of accepted mentoring organizations published
    
    • Google Summer of Code is a global program focused on introducing students to open source software development. Students work on a 3-month programming project with an open-source organization during their break from university.

    3- Open Mainframe Project Mentorship Program- Linux Foundation link

      Deadline for applications
    
    • The Open Mainframe Project funds mentees to complete projects during the period between semesters in the months of May, June, July, August, and September. Upon successful completion of the mentorship, mentees are invited to present at an industry conference. The Open Mainframe Project funds travel and expenses for mentees.

👨‍💻 March 🍀

  • 🔆 Open Source Event

    1- Codess link

      Phase 1 Student application
    
    • Codess is a community for female coders initiated by Microsoft and was established to explore ways to promote gender diversity in the engineering field. Since its inception in 2013 in London, Codess has been inspiring women in engineering and helping them achieve their professional goals.
    • The best part: Approximately 30 participants were extended offers to intern at Microsoft

    2- Google Summer of Earth Engine link

      Student application Start
    
    • 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!
    • This program is based on the Google Summer of Code model.

    3- RAILS GIRLS SUMMER OF CODE link

      Student application stage
    
    • RAILS GIRLS SUMMER OF CODE is a global fellowship program for women and non-binary coders. Students receive a three-month scholarship to work on existing Open Source projects and expand their skill set.

    4- Linux Kernel Mentorship Programlink Link

      Summer Program
    
    • The Linux Kernel Mentorship Program offers a structured remote learning opportunity to aspiring Linux Kernel developers. Experienced Linux Kernel developers and maintainers mentor volunteer mentees and help them become contributors to the Linux Kernel.
    • The Linux Kernel Mentorship Program includes three 12-week, full-time volunteer mentee positions, and two 24-week part-time volunteer mentee positions each year. Please check the Summer 2020 Linux Kernel Mentorship Program and get started. This is a remote opportunity and there is no need to relocate or move to participate.

    5- Free Software Foundation link

      Spring Student application
    
    • This is an educational opportunity to work with the organization that sponsors the GNU Project, publishes the GNU General Public License (GPL), and fights for software freedom.

🚶 April 💡

  • 🔆 Open Source Event

    1-RARE Technologies Student Incubator Programme link

      Student application
    
    • Our student Incubator offers a unique mix of academic mentorship, hand-on project work and technical training. It is a highly selective program where you will be mentored by an industry expert as you develop a pragmatic solution to a real-world problem using machine learning.

    2-Igalia Web Engines Hackfestlink

      Student application in process
    
    • Igalia has been hosting the Web Engines Hackfest every year since 2009. And every year the event has grown bigger, with an increasing number of participants and broader areas of interest.

    3- BOSS - Bountiful Open Source Summer link

      Student application in process
    
    • Each year we teach hundreds of students coding, programming and software development. Over the past five years (we started off in April 2014), we have helped more than 3000 students gain expertise in Android, Web, Data Science and more.
    • BOSS 2019 is open to any Indian Student. You could be a student enrolled in any school or a college or university.

💆‍♂️ May 🌝

  • 🔆 Open Source Event

    1- Season of Docs link

      Organizations announced
    
    • Google Season of Docs is a program giving technical writers an opportunity to contribute to open source projects, by paying them a three month stipend and facilitating connections between writers and projects. As a platform that’s all about supporting the open source community, we think this is fantastic, because a lot of open source projects really need documentation help.

    2-ESA Summer of Code in Spacelink

      Open Source Software Submission Deadline
    
    • ESA Summer of Code in Space (SOCIS) is a program run by the European Space Agency that focuses on bringing student developers into open source software development for space applications. Students work with a mentoring organization (with potential support from ESA experts) on a 3 month programming project during their summer break.

    3- OSS World Challenge link

      Challenge opens every May			
    
    • Open Source Software World Challenge is an annual competition hosted by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning of Korea.
    • Open to anyone national interested in open source software.
    • Bring together the gems of open source developers to cultivate developing-skills through cooperated projects which will eventually expand the open source minds/spirit and practices among community.

    4- ACM MM Open Source Software Competition link

      Deadline for applications
    
    • The Open Source Software Competition is an important part of the ACM Multimedia program. The competition, now in its 17th edition, is intended to celebrate, encourage and promote the contribution of researchers, software developers and educators to advance the field by providing the community with implementations of codecs, middleware, frameworks, toolkits, libraries, multimedia players, applications, authoring tools, and other multimedia software.

🏃 June

  • 🔆 Open Source Event

    1- Linux Kernel Mentorship Programlink Link

      Fall Program
    
    • The Linux Kernel Mentorship Program offers a structured remote learning opportunity to aspiring Linux Kernel developers. Experienced Linux Kernel developers and maintainers mentor volunteer mentees and help them become contributors to the Linux Kernel.

🏇 July 💻

  • 🔆 Open Source Event

    1- Alibaba Summer of Codelink

      Work begin
    
    • Alibaba Summer of Code is a global program focused on engaging students directly into open source software development. Under the guidance of the mentor in the Alibaba open source project, students experience the software development in the real world.
    • On this exclusive developer journey, students will have the opportunity to: Participate in the top projects of the International Open Source Foundation, Get a fast pass of Alibaba Internship/recruitment.

🍻 August 🔍

  • 🥇 Hackathon

    1- InOut Hackathon link

      Application period start
    
    • InOut prides itself on being India’s biggest community hackathon.
    • Since its inception in 2015, InOut has been a platform where technology leaders and the brightest minds come together to collaborate on building tools that solve real problems.

🚕 September ♠️

  • 🔆 Open Source Event

    1- CodeHeat Coding Contest of FOSSASIA link

    • In the Heat of the Code is a coding contest for FOSSASIA projects on GitHub.
      The contest runs until February. Grand prize winners will be invited to present their work at the FOSSASIA OpenTechSummit in Singapore in March and will get up to 600 SGD in travel funding to attend, plus a free speaker ticket. Other participants will have the chance to win Tshirts, Swag and vouchers to attend Open Tech events in the region and will get certificates of participation.

🏍️ October 🎯

  • 🔆 Open Source Event

    1- Hacktoberfest link

      countdown start
    
    • Hacktoberfest is a month-long celebration of open source software run by DigitalOcean and DEV. Hacktoberfest is open to everyone in our global community. To participate, four pull requests must be submitted to public GitHub repositories. You can sign up anytime between October 1 and October 31.

    2- Pycon link

    • Pycon is the premier conference in India on using and developing the Python programming language.

    3- Linux Kernel Mentorship Programlink Link

      Spring Program
    
    • The Linux Kernel Mentorship Program offers a structured remote learning opportunity to aspiring Linux Kernel developers. Experienced Linux Kernel developers and maintainers mentor volunteer mentees and help them become contributors to the Linux Kernel.

    4-Halite AI Bot Challenge Link

      Program Start
    
    • Halite is an artificial intelligence challenge, created by Two Sigma. Participants write bots using the programming language of their choice to compete in an original online multiplayer game.

🚗 November 🏆

  • 🥇 Hackathon

    1- I_Hack (IIT-B) link

      Registration Start 
    
    • At I_Hack, we bring together India’s best coders, developers, designers, innovators, creators and entrepreneurs of tomorrow. I_Hack is geared up for those who are passionate about building, designing and innovating. It is a 30 Hr event where the enthusiasts meet, develop and compete in the product prototyping competition.
    • I_Hack comprises of 3 parallel tracks : BLOCKCHAIN TRACK, SOFTWARE TRACK, DATA TRACK.
  • 🔆 Open Source Event

    1- GCI (Google Code In) link

      Application for Mentor Start
    
    • Google Code-in is a contest to introduce pre-university students (ages 13-17) to open source software development.
    • Mentor Responsibilities: Help and/or teach the student how to be a part of your community, communicate more effectively and in the open, Keep track of their progress, keep student informed as to their status

🌎 December 🛫

  • 🥇 Hackathon

    1- SIH (Smart India Hackathon) link Linkdin

      Registration Start
    
    • World’s Biggest Hackathon and Open Innovation model, an initiative by Ministry of HRD 4th edition of highly successful.
    • Smart India Hackathon initiative Involves 2 Lakh+ students with 57,000+ ideas from 2200+ institutions against 530+ problem statements provided by 120+ organizations from across India.
    • Be part of World’s biggest Open Innovation Movement Opportunity to work with some of the best talents in the country
  • 🔆 Open Source Event

    1- KWoC (Kharagpur Winter of Code) link

      Application start
    

    Kharagpur Winter of Code is a 5-week long online programme for students who are new to open source software development. The programme not only helps students to get involved in open source, but also prepares them for many open source summer programmes; Google Summer of Code being one of them. The program is hosted by Kharagpur Open Source Society an independent student group at IIT Kharagpur, but is open to students of any university.

    2- KDE Student Programs. link

    • Focused on offering an opportunity to anyone (not just enrolled students) contributing to the KDE community, this is a program that is comparable to the well-known Google Summer of Code, with some special differences.
    • A key difference is that SoK projects are not limited to code-focused work, but any that benefit our community. For instance, projects can be about documentation, reports, translation, system administration, web and other types of work as well as code.

    3- 24 Pull Requests link

    • 24 Pull Requests' goal is to encourage contribution to open source projects during December. The site suggests open projects, highlights tickets that are good for new contributors, provides guides for contributing and promotes good contributions submitted each day.
    • The idea is simple: 'Send 24 pull requests between December 1st and December 24th', encouraging contributors to give back to open source projects with little gifts of code throughout December.


🤝 How to Contribute

For sending PR:-

  • Please use any ReadMe editor, my fevouriate editor is Stackedit.io.
  • Follow the pattern of doc to add new events in the list.
  • Add link of the event is important.
  • Pick an open issue from the issue list and claim it in the comments. After approval fix the issue and send us a pull request (PR).
  • All the PR’s need to be sent to the appropriate branch (usually "master").

For Open issue:-

  • You can create a new issue and send a pull request.
  • Please go through our issue list first (open as well as closed) and make sure the issue you are reporting does not replicate an issue already reported. If you have issues on multiple pages, report them separately. Do not combine them into a single issue.


📝 License Licensed under the MIT License.

💜 Thanks Thanks to our many contributors.