25+ Paid Open Source Programs and Internships
Kunal Kushwaha
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Kunal Kushwaha is a Senior Developer Advocate at CAST AI, where he leads developer relations in the EMEA region, focusing on cloud-native technologies and AI, helping companies modernize their infrastructure and adopt innovative solutions. He is also the founder of WeMakeDevs, a community initiative where he mentors individuals in tech. His educational content on YouTube has been watched by millions. A passionate advocate for open source, Kunal regularly speaks at industry conferences on cloud, AI, and developer growth.
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Here are 25+ Paid Open Source Programs and Internships that you can apply to. I share some of the rare programs that provide great exposure, stipends upto $10,000 that not many students know about. Watch and apply to never miss an opportunity. ➡️ Download & Learn Teleport for Free: http://goteleport.com/kunal (Quickly access any computing resource anywhere) ➡️ Connect with me: http://kunalkushwaha.com ========================================= Links: Reinforcement Learning Open Source Fest - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/academic-program/rl-open-source-fest/ LFX Mentorship Program - https://mentorship.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/#projects_all CNCF Mentoring - https://github.com/cncf/mentoring MLH Fellowship - https://fellowship.mlh.io Google Summer of Code - https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/about/ LFN Mentorship Program - https://wiki.lfnetworking.org/display/LN/LFN+Mentorship+Program Linux Kernel Mentorship Program - https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/lkmp GNOME Internships - https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreach Outreachy Internships - https://www.outreachy.org Google Season of Docs - https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs/get-started X.Org Endless Vacation of Code - https://www.x.org/wiki/XorgEVoC/ Julia Seasons of Contributions (JSoC) - https://julialang.org/ Summer of Haskell - https://summer.haskell.org Open Mainframe Project Mentorship Program - https://www.openmainframeproject.org/projects/mentorship-program 24 Pull Requests - https://24pullrequests.com/about OSOC - https://osoc.be Hyperledger mentorship program - https://wiki.hyperledger.org/display/INTERN/Hyperledger+Mentorship+Program Season of KDE 2021 - https://season.kde.org DataONE Summer Internship Program - https://old.dataone.org/internships Intern at the FSF - https://www.fsf.org/volunteer/internships Processing Foundation Fellowships - https://processingfoundation.org/fellowships/ Hacktoberfest - https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com FOSSASIA Codeheat - https://codeheat.org FOSSASIA Internship Program - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScp8h5SIPVK5G2SAm5vtrv7KLKeOeYTxlZBkDRE6I7Toybt0A/viewform DrivenData Competitions - https://www.drivendata.org/competitions/ Kubernetes Release Team Shadows - https://github.com/kubernetes/sig-release/blob/master/release-team/shadows.md ========================================= Timestamps 0:00 Introduction 1:24 About Teleport 2:45 About the Video 5:21 1. Microsoft Open Source Program 9:05 2. LFX Mentorship 13:31 3. MLH Fellowship 17:00 4. Google Summer of Code 18:37 5. LFN Mentorship Program 20:09 6. Linux Kernel Mentorship Program 21:17 7. GNOME 22:20 8. Outreachy 24:19 9. Google Summer of Docs 24:46 10. x.org/ Foundation 25:44 11. Julia Season of Contributions 25:58 12. Summer of Haskell 26:23 13. Open Mainframe Projects 27:15 14. 25PullRequests 27:45 15. Open Innovation Projects 28:19 16. Hyperledger Mentorship Program 29:27 17. Season of KDE 30:10 18. DataONE 30:57 19. Free Software Foundation 31:41 20. Processing Foundation Fellowship 32:05 21. Hacktober Fest 32:52 22. Foss Asia 33:59 23. Driven Data 34:23 24. Kubernetes Shadow Program 36:00 Outro
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