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Schedule of all the OS Programs
All are categorized according to their "Registration Date Begin".
Kindly note down, All the dates are in approx. it's based on previous year tmeline on their "Official Website" . **Always visit their Official Website and confirm the timeline** and you can also update the timeline here, if you want then, make a issue and push a PR .
**Some popular OS - Programs are marked by ⭐ .**
| Name | Stipend | Timeline | Registration Date Begin (Approximately) | Deadline (Approx.) | Type | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| ⭐ MLH Fellowship (Pre-program & Open source) | Yes | Jan - Apr | Before the deadline | Jan-4th | Fellowship | Certificate, Swags & more |
| ⭐ Linux Kernel Mentorship Program | Yes | Mar - May | mid-Jan | late-Feb | Mentorship Program | Certificate |
| ⭐ LFX Mentorship Program | Yes | Spring Mar - May | Jan | Feb | Mentorship Program | Certificate |
| ⭐ Hyperledger Mentorship Program | Yes | Jun - Aug(Full-Time) Jun - Nov(Part-time) | Jan-28 | Mar-10 | Mentorship Program | Certificate |
| ⭐ Outreachy | Yes | May - Aug | late Jan | late Feb | Internship | Certificate |
| Summer of Bitcoin | Yes (3000 USD) | Jan - Aug | January 1 | March 15 | Summer Internship Program | Internship, Job opportunity (if performed exceptionally well) |
| FOSSEE Semester-long Internship | Mar - Apr | Jan 08 | Feb 05 | Internship | Certificate | |
| Open Mainframe Project (Linux Foundation) | Mar - May | mid-Jan | mid-Feb | OS-Program | Certificate | |
| Codeflow - OpenForce | Mar | Jan 15 | Feb 28 | OS-Program | Certificate & Special goodies/swags/cash prizes | |
| Cross Winter of code | Feb - Mar | Jan 25 | Feb 10 | University OS Program | Certificates & swags |
| Name | Stipend | Timeline | Registration Date Begin (Approximately) | Deadline (Approx.) | Type | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| ⭐ Google Summer of Documentation-(Docs) | Yes | Apr - Nov | 9 Feb | 26 Mar | OS-Program | Certificate |
| Mircosoft:-Reiforcement Learning Open Source Fest | Yes | May - Aug | 1 Feb | 1 Mar | OS-Program | Certificate |
| DataONE Summer Internship Programme | Yes | May - Jul | 22 Feb | 25 Mar | Internship | Certificate |
| GirlScript Summer of code-(GSSoC) | Mar - May | Feb | Mar | OS-Program | Prizes, swag rewards and internship opportunities for winners |
| Name | Stipend | Timeline | Registration Date Begin (Approximately) | Deadline (Approx.) | Type | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| ⭐ Google Summer of Code-(GSoC) | Yes | Mar - Sept | early Mar | mid Apr | OS-Program | Certificate |
| Reinforcement Learning Open Source Fest | Yes | May - Aug or Sep - Dec | Mar | Apr | Open Source Fest | Certificate |
| Google Summer of Earth Engine-(SoEE) | Yes | May - July | 15 Mar | 15 Apr | OS-Program | Certificate |
| Igalia Coding Experience Program | Yes | 1 Mar | end of Apr | OS-Program | Certificate | |
| RAILS GIRLS SUMMER OF CODE-(RGSOC) | Yes | Jun - Sep | 02 Mar | 30 Mar | OS-Program | Certificate |
| Processing Foundation Fellowships | Yes | Mar | 2 Apr | Fellowship | Certificate | |
| TOR Summer of Privacy | Yes | Early Mar | late Mar | OS-Program | Certificate | |
| X org Foundation-(EVOC) | 9 Mar | 13 Apr | OS-Program | Certificate |
| Name | Stipend | Timeline | Registration Date Begin (Approximately) | Deadline (Approx.) | Type | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| ⭐ (LFN)-Linux Foundation Mentorship Program | Yes | Jun - Aug(full-time) & Jun - Nov(part-time) | 15 Apr | 10 May | Mentorship Program | Certificate |
| ⭐ Linux Kernel Mentorship Program | Yes | Jun 1 - Aug 31 | mid Apr | late-May | Mentorship Program | Certificate |
| ERPNext Summer of Code | Yes | May - Aug | 3 Apr | 14 Apr | OS-Program | Certificate |
| AI4Bharat Summer of Code | Yes | May 1 - Jul 31 | Apr | 20 Apr | IIT Madras OS Program | Internship |
| FOSSEE Summer Fellowship | 17 Apr | 05 May | University Fellowship | Certificate | ||
| Cross Research Experience Program | mid Apr | before May 10 | OS-Program | Certificate | ||
| Open Mainframe Project -Linux Foundation | Yes | mid Apr | mid May | OS-Program | Certificate |
| Name | Stipend | Timeline | Registration Date Begin (Approximately) | Deadline (Approx.) | Type | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| ⭐ MLH Fellowship (Pre-program & Open source) | Yes | May - Aug | Before the deadline | before 10 May | Fellowship | Certificate, Swags & more |
| ⭐ LFX Mentorship Program | Yes | Summer Jun - Aug | May | May | Mentorship Program | Certificate |
| Alibaba Summer of code | Yes | Aug | 25 May | 30 Jun | OS-Program | Certificate |
| Tencent Rhino-bird Open-source Training Program | Yes | before Jun | OS-Program | Certificate | ||
| Summer of Open Souce Promotion Plan | Yes | Jul - Nov | 24 May | 13 Jun | OS-Program | Certificate |
| LetsGrowMore’s Summer Of Code | May - Jul | 20 May | 31 May | Community OS Program | Certificates | |
| OSS Summer of Innovation | May - Jul | 1 May | 5 May | University OS Program | Swags & Prizes For Winners | |
| Hack Club SRM Summer of Code (HCSSoC) | Jun - Jul | 18 May | 23 Jun | University OS Program | Certificates & swag rewards | |
| OSS World Challenge | The challenge opens every “May” then close by “September” | Competitions | Prizes for winners | |||
| Bountiful Open Source Summer-BOSS | May - Aug | before 15 Aug | Competitions | Prizes For Winners & top performers |
| Name | Stipend | Timeline | Registration Date Begin (Approximately) | Deadline (Approx.) | Type | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| ⭐ Open Summer of Code-(OSoC) | Yes | Jul | Jun | early-Jul | OS-Program | Certificate |
| ACM MM Open Source Software Competition | Early Jun | 25 Jun | Competitions | Prizes For Winners | ||
| PClub Summer Of Code | Early Jun | late Jun | OS-Program | |||
| Script Fellowship Program | Aug - Nov | 1 Jun | 25 Jul | Fellowship | Certificate |
| Name | Stipend | Timeline | Registration Date Begin (Approximately) | Deadline (Approx.) | Type | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| ⭐ Open Mainframe Project-Linux Foundation | Yes | mid Jul | mid Aug | OS-Program | Certificate | |
| ⭐ Linux Kernel Mentorship Program | Yes | Sep 1 - Nov 30 | mid-Jul | late-Aug | Mentorship Program | Certificate |
| Witnet Summer of Code Program-(WSoC) | before 15 Jul | OS-Program | Certificate | |||
| Mozilla Winter of Security | 29 Jul | 15 Sep | OS-Program | Certificate |
| Name | Stipend | Timeline | Registration Date Begin (Approximately) | Deadline (Approx.) | Type | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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——– | ——– | —————- | ——– | —– | ——– |
| ⭐ Outreachy | Yes | Dec to Mar | mid Aug | late Sept | Internship | Certificate |
| Girlscript winter of code (docs) | Sep - Nov | Early Aug | late Aug | OS - Program | Swag rewards for top performer, Certificate |
| Name | Stipend | Timeline | Registration Date Begin (Approximately) | Deadline (Approx.) | Type | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| ⭐ MLH Fellowship (Pre-program & Open source) | Yes | Sep - Dec | Before the deadline | before 13 Sept | Fellowship | Certificate, Swags & more |
| ⭐ Hacktober Fest by Digital Ocean | Oct | Sep | Oct | Competitions | Swag Rewards | |
| GNOME Internship Program | Yes | Dec - Mar | 1 Sep | 1 Oct | Internship | |
| Script Winter of code-(SWoC) | Nov - Mar | 10 Sep | 10 Nov | OS - Program | Prizes, swag rewards, Certificate | |
| Semester Long Projects (SLoP by DA-IICT) | Sep - Nov | 15 Sep | late Sept | University OS Program | Certificates & swag rewards |
| Name | Stipend | Timeline | Registration Date Begin (Approximately) | Deadline (Approx.) | Type | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| IIIT-Kalyani Winter of code 2.0 | Dec - Feb | 1 Oct | 7 Nov | University OS Program | Certificates & swag rewards | |
| Delta Winter of Code-(DWoC) | Nov - Jan | 19 Oct | 22 Nov | University OS Program | Certificates & swag rewards | |
| NJACK Winter Of Code | Dec - Jan | 22 Oct | late Nov | University OS Program | Certificates & swag rewards |
| Name | Stipend | Timeline | Registration Date Begin (Approximately) | Deadline (Approx.) | Type | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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——– | ——– | —————- | ——– | —– | ——– |
| ⭐ GitHub Externship | Yes | Jan | Nov 23 | Dec 19 | Externship | Paid Internship, Solve Real World Problems |
| ⭐ Foss Asia Codeheat | Nov - Jan | runs from Nov 10 | 11 May | Competition | Cash Prizes For Winners | |
| Winter of code by NSEC | Dec - Jan | 20 Nov | 6 Dec | University OS Program | Certificates & swag rewards | |
| Kharagpur Open Source Society-(KWoC) | Dec - Jan | 26 Nov | 6 Dec | University OS Program | Certificates & swag rewards | |
| DevScript Winter of code | Dec - Mar | 30 Nov | 25 Dec | University OS Program | Certificates & swag rewards |
| Name | Stipend | Timeline | Registration Date Begin (Approximately) | Deadline (Approx.) | Type | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| ⭐ Season of KDE | Jan - Mar | 15 Dec | 15 Jan | OS - Program | ||
| JGEC Winter of code | Feb - Mar | Jan 16 | Jan 30 | University OS Program | Certificates & swag rewards | |
| 24 Pull Requests | Dec | Send 24 pull requests between December 1st and December 24th | Competitions |
| Name | Stipend | Timeline | Registration Date Begin (Approximately) | Deadline (Approx.) | Type | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| ⭐ Free Software Foundation (FSF) Intership Program | winter: December 8 summer: May 10 Fall: September 2. spring: November 29 | Intership | ||||
| ⭐ (CNCF)-Community Bridge Mentorship Program | Yes | Summer - (CNCF) participates in LFX Mentorship (ex-CommunityBridge), GSOC , GSOD , CROSS Research Experience Program | ||||
| ⭐ Redox Summer of code | Yes | In Summer | ||||
| ⭐ Julia Season of Contribution-(JSOC) | Yes | It takes part in - GSOC & GSOD | OS - Program | Certificate | ||
| ⭐ Foss Asia Intership Program | Yes | Whole Year | OS - Program | |||
| John Hunter Matplotlib Summer Fellowship | Yes | Summer - 3 monthes | Fellowship | |||
| Radare Summer of Code | Yes | RSoC Project take part in GSOC | ||||
| Summer of Haskell | Yes | SOH projects take part in GSOC | ||||
| The X.Org Endless Vacation of Code-(EVoC) | Yes | EVoC mentorship can be initiated at any time during the calendar year | ||||
| RARE Technologies Student Incubator Programme | Yes | Poject take part in GSOC & It took place in Summer | scholarships and financial rewards | |||
| Vectorised IO | Yes | Not found | ||||
| Snowplow | Yes | Not found | ||||
| RubyMe Mentorship Program | Yes | Not found | Mentorship | |||
| Kubernetes Shadows Program | Shadows are selected via the Release Team Shadow Application, which usually opens up around the end of a release/beginning of the next release | |||||
| Millennium Fellowship | Applications for this is open for whole year except Aug to Nov | Fellowship | ||||
| Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador Program | Application form is open throughout the year | |||||
| OpenCode IIITA | starting in October for student | University OS Program | Certificates & swag rewards | |||
| Tweag I/O Summer Internship | Not found | Internship | ||||
| Segment Open Fellowship | Not found | Fellowship | ||||
| Sanscript Autumn of Open Source | Not found | University OS Program | Certificates & swag rewards | |||
| RGSOC | Not found | |||||
| Quantopian Open | Not found | Competitions | Cash prizes for winners | |||
| OWASP SOC | Not found | |||||
| MDG Winter of Code | Not found | |||||
| ICFOSS Fellowship Programme | Not found | Fellowship | ||||
| Halite AI Bot Challenge | Not found | Competitions | Swag rewards for winners | |||
| HackinCodes Contributor Hack | Not found | Competitions | Prizes, swag rewards, Certificate | |||
| Data Driven Competition | Not found | Competitions | Cash Prizes For Winners | |||
| (DAWOC)-DA-IICT Winter of Code | Not found | |||||
| Cats winter of code | Not found | |||||
| Educational Externship Track | Not found | Externship | ||||
| Data Observation National of Earth | Not found | |||||
| SOCIS | Not found | |||||
| Open Innovation Project | Not found | |||||
| Open Source Track Explorer | Not found | |||||
| Free Software Observation | Not found |
All the OS Programs list
- Alibaba Summer of code
- ACM MM Open Source Software Competition
- AI4Bharat Summer of Code
- Apertre - A 15-day-long Open Source Event
- (CNCF)-Community Bridge Mentorship Program
- Cross Research Experience Program
- Cross Winter of code
- Cats winter of code
- Data Driven Competition
- Delta Winter of Code-(DWoC)
- DevScript Winter of code
- DataONE Summer Internship Programme
- (DAWOC)-DA-IICT Winter of Code
- Data Observation National of Earth
- ERPNext Summer of Code
- Educational Externship Track
- Foss Asia Codeheat
- Foss Asia Intership Program
- (FSF) Free Software Foundation Intership Program
- FOSSEE Summer Fellowship
- FOSSEE Semester-long Internship
- Free Software Observation
- GitHub Externship
- Google Summer of Code-(GSoC)
- Google Summer of Documentation-(Docs))
- Google Summer of Earth Engine-(SoEE)
- GNOME Internship Program
- GirlScript Summer of code-(GSSoC)
- Girlscript winter of code (docs)
- Google Code-in (GCI)
- Hyperledger Mentorship Program
- Hacktober Fest by Digital Ocean
- Hack Club SRM Summer of Code (HCSSoC)
- Halite AI Bot Challenge
- HackinCodes Contributor Hack
- LFX Mentorship Program
- (LFN)-Linux Foundation Mentorship Program
- Linux Kernel Mentorship Program
- LetsGrowMore’s Summer Of Code
- MLH Fellowship (Pre-program & Open source)
- Mircosoft:- Reiforcement Learning Open Source Fest
- Millennium Fellowship
- Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador Program
- Mozilla Winter of Security
- MDG Winter of Code
- Outreachy
- Open Mainframe Project (Mentorship Program) (Linux Foundation)
- Open Summer of Code-(OSoC)
- OSS Summer of Innovation
- OpenCode IIITA
- OSS World Challenge
- OWASP SOC
- Open Source Track Explorer
- Open Innovation Project
- Reinforcement Learning Open Source Fest by Microsoft
- Redox Summer of code
- Radare Summer of Code
- RARE Technologies Student Incubator Programme
- RubyMe Mentorship Program
- RGSOC
- Season of KDE
- Summer of Haskell
- Summer of Bitcoin
- Snowplow
- Summer of Open Souce Promotion Plan
- Script Winter of code-(SWoC)
- Script Fellowship Program
- Semester Long Projects (SLoP by DA-IICT)
- Sanscript Autumn of Open Source
- Segment Open Fellowship
- SOCIS
- Tencent Rhino-bird Open-source Training Program
- The X.Org Endless Vacation of Code-(EVoC)
- TOR Summer of Privacy
- Tweag I/O Summer Internship
Best Popular Open Source Programs
These Open Source Programs are so popular, And it can boost your Profile. You should not miss to apply for these….
| Name | Stipend | Timeline | Registration Date Begin (Approximately) | Deadline (Approx.) | Type | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
——– | ——– | —————- | ——– | —– | ——– |
| MLH Fellowship (Pre-program & Open source) | Yes | Jan - Apr | Before the deadline | Jan-4th | Fellowship | Certificate, Swags & more |
| Summer of Bitcoin | Yes (3000 USD) | Jan - Aug | January 1 | March 15 | Summer Internship Program | Internship, Job opportunity (if performed exceptionally well) |
| Linux Kernel Mentorship Program | Yes | Mar - May | mid-Jan | late-Feb | Mentorship Program | Certificate |
| Hyperledger Mentorship Program | Yes | Jun - Aug(Full-Time) Jun - Nov(Part-time) | Jan-28 | Mar-10 | Mentorship Program | Certificate |
| Outreachy | Yes | May - Aug | late Jan | late Feb | Internship | Certificate |
| Reinforcement Learning Open Source Fest | Yes | May - Aug or Sep - Dec | Mar | Apr | Open Source Fest | Certificate |
| LFX Mentorship Program | Yes | Spring Mar - May | Jan | Feb | Mentorship Program | Certificate |
| Google Summer of Documentation-(Docs) | Yes | Apr - Nov | 9 Feb | 26 Mar | OS-Program | Certificate |
| Google Summer of Code-(GSoC) | Yes | Mar - Sept | early Mar | mid Apr | OS-Program | Certificate |
| RAILS GIRLS SUMMER OF CODE-(RGSOC) | Yes | Jun - Sep | 02 Mar | 30 Mar | OS-Program | Certificate |
| (LFN)-Linux Foundation Mentorship Program | Yes | Jun - Aug(full-time) & Jun - Nov(part-time) | 15 Apr | 10 May | Mentorship Program | Certificate |
| Linux Kernel Mentorship Program | Yes | Jun 1 - Aug 31 | mid Apr | late-May | Mentorship Program | Certificate |
| MLH Fellowship (Pre-program & Open source) | Yes | May - Aug | Before the deadline | before 10 May | Fellowship | Certificate, Swags & more |
| LFX Mentorship Program | Yes | Summer Mar - May | May | May | Mentorship Program | Certificate |
| Alibaba Summer of code | Yes | Aug | 25 May | 30 Jun | OS-Program | Certificate |
| Open Mainframe Project-Linux Foundation | Yes | mid Jul | mid Aug | OS-Program | Certificate | |
| Linux Kernel Mentorship Program | Yes | Sep 1 - Nov 30 | mid-Jul | late-Aug | Mentorship Program | Certificate |
| Outreachy | Yes | Dec to Mar | mid Aug | late Sept | Internship | Certificate |
| MLH Fellowship (Pre-program & Open source) | Yes | Sep - Dec | Before the deadline | before 13 Sept | Fellowship | Certificate, Swags & more |
| Hacktober Fest by Digital Ocean | Oct | Sep | Oct | Competitions | Swag Rewards | |
| GitHub Externship | Yes | Jan | Nov 23 | Dec 19 | Externship | Paid Internship, Solve Real World Problems |
| Foss Asia Codeheat | Nov - Jan | runs from Nov 10 | 11 May | Competition | Cash Prizes For Winners | |
| Season of KDE | Jan - Mar | 15 Dec | 15 Jan | OS - Program | ||
| (CNCF)-Community Bridge Mentorship Program | Yes | Summer - (CNCF) participates in LFX Mentorship (ex-CommunityBridge), GSOC , GSOD , CROSS Research Experience Program |
University , Colleges and Community OS programs
These Open Source programs are organised by some Colleges and Universities student clubs, and here you will get so much very basic and friendly Open Source Project . If you are beginner and you don’t know anything about Open Source and you want some confident before applying for some big OS-Programs, You should to apply for these…..
| Name | Stipend | Timeline | Registration Date Begin (Approximately) | Deadline (Approx.) | Type | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Apertre-A 15-day-long Open Source Event by Resourcio Community & GDSC AOT | Internship Opportunity (Leaderboard Toppers) | 3rd JAN,2024 to 17th JAN,2024 | Ongoing | 26 December,2023 | College & Community OS Program | Prizepool of 10k + swags + certificates |
| Cross Winter of code | Feb - Mar | Jan 25 | Feb 10 | University OS Program | Certificates & swags | |
| OSS Summer of Innovation | May - Jul | 1 May | 5 May | University OS Program | Swags & Prizes For Winners | |
| LetsGrowMore’s Summer Of Code | May - Jul | 20 May | 31 May | Community OS Program | Certificates | |
| Hack Club SRM Summer of Code (HCSSoC) | Jun - Jul | 18 May | 23 Jun | University OS Program | Certificates & swag rewards | |
| Semester Long Projects (SLoP by DA-IICT) | Sep - Nov | 15 Sep | late Sept | University OS Program | Certificates & swag rewards | |
| IIIT-Kalyani Winter of code 2.0 | Dec - Feb | 1 Oct | 7 Nov | University OS Program | Certificates & swag rewards | |
| Delta Winter of Code-(DWoC) | Nov - Jan | 19 Oct | 22 Nov | University OS Program | Certificates & swag rewards | |
| NJACK Winter Of Code | Dec - Jan | 22 Oct | late Nov | University OS Program | Certificates & swag rewards | |
| Winter of code by NSEC | Dec - Jan | 20 Nov | 6 Dec | University OS Program | Certificates & swag rewards | |
| Kharagpur Open Source Society-(KWoC) | Dec - Jan | 26 Nov | 6 Dec | University OS Program | Certificates & swag rewards | |
| DevScript Winter of code | Dec - Mar | 30 Nov | 25 Dec | University OS Program | Certificates & swag rewards | |
| JGEC Winter of code | Feb - Mar | Jan 16 | Jan 30 | University OS Program | Certificates & swag rewards | |
| OpenCode IIITA | starting in October for student | University OS Program | Certificates & swag rewards | |||
| Sanscript Autumn of Open Source | Not found | University OS Program | Certificates & swag rewards |