Date: January 15, 2021
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Outreachy is seeking open source communities to participate in the May to August 2021 internship round.
We encourage any open source community to apply to mentor Outreachy interns.
Outreachy does not require your community to provide internship funding. However, donations to Outreachy have decreased over the last few years, and we currently have a very limited budget to fund internships each cohort.
We often find that FOSS communities know best what organizations or companies might have funding available. Therefore, we need your help finding additional Outreachy sponsors.
We cannot assure funding for your interns, but we will try. Your help identifying fundraising leads will be a major factor in the success of this Outreachy internship cohort.
Donation amounts
In order to sustain our program, Outreachy needs to receive donations of at least $6,500 to $10,000 USD per intern we accept. This breaks down to:
Donations to the Outreachy program are vital to support interns
Outreachy is a labor intensive program. Outreachy organizers are highly involved with interns. Outreachy organizers work closely with your community's mentors to empower your interns to pursue a future in FOSS. The Outreachy organizers share tips for your interns on how to attend FOSS conferences, encourage your interns to explore careers or academic research in open source, and help them expand their network of open source contracts.
Outreachy's deep support of interns, along with your mentoring partnership, means 80% of past Outreachy interns continue to contribute to open source after their internship.
Outreachy organizers' deep support of interns would not be possible without funding for Outreachy's core program activities. We highly encourage organizations to donate additional funds to Outreachy program activities because additional donations helps us retain Outreachy interns in the open source community.
We need fundraising collaboration with FOSS communities
We need your community's help to identify and convince organizations to provide donations to help Outreachy sustain our deep support of interns, and retain their amazing talent in our open source community. Please don't think about this as just finding funding for your interns for this internship cohort. This is about sustaining our program, and we ask for your help with promotion and fundraising leads.
Important dates:
Please see the full mentor schedule below.
What is Outreachy?
Humanitarian community funding
May 2021 internship dates
Outreachy is an internship program. Outreachy internships are:
💵 Paid - $6,000 USD total internship stipend
🌍 Remote - both interns and mentors work remotely
🕰 3 months - internships run May 24 to August 24
Outreachy's goal is to increase diversity in open source. Past Outreachy interns are:
♀️ 92% women
🏳️🌈 4% transgender, genderqueer, or non-binary people
🧕🏾 64% people of color
🧑🏿 12% people from a historically disadvantaged caste or tribe
Statistics are based on responses to the 2019 longitudinal study of Outreachy alums.
Outreachy is seeking humanitarian open source communities to participate in the May 2021 internship round.
We especially invite humanitarian communities to apply who are tackling:
These are some of the greatest challenges humanity faces today.
Please contact Outreachy organizers with your questions!
Outreachy is pleased to announce that the Outreachy general fund will be funding humanitarian open source communities.
Outreachy will provide funding for at least one intern ($6,500 USD) for each community. Some communities may receive additional funding if they have multiple strong applicants.
We encourage communities to list 1-3 intern projects.
Outreachy encourages co-mentoring projects! We encourage communities to find two or more mentors. Communities should also consider finding volunteers to help applicants with project tasks during the contribution period
Mentor time commitment:
Mentors will need to provide an internship project description. Outreachy does not allow applicants to submit project ideas.
Mentors will need to provide a list of tasks for applicants to work on during the contribution period.
| Dec. 7, 2020 at 4pm UTC | Community sign up opens |
| Feb. 1, 2021 at 4pm UTC | Initial applications open |
| Feb. 22, 2021 at 4pm UTC | Initial application deadline |
| March 1, 2021 at 4pm UTC | ⚠️ Deadline for communities to sign up to mentor |
| March 22, 2021 at 4pm UTC | ⚠️ Deadline for mentors to subject project descriptions |
| March 29, 2021 | Contribution period begins |
| May 3, 2021 | Contribution period ends |
| May 3, 2021 at 4pm UTC | Final application deadline |
| May 10, 2021 | Intern selection deadline |
| May 12, 2021 | Outreachy organizers finalize intern selections |
| May 17, 2021 at 4pm UTC | Interns are publicly announced on the alums page |
| May 24, 2021 to Aug. 24, 2021 | Internships period |
