📚 Resources
Fellowship/Internship Programs [Paid]
- Outreachy Internships
- Major League Hacking’s MLH Fellowship
- Linux Foundation Mentorship Programs (global / anyone 18+)
- Google Summer of Code (global / any newcomer 18+)
Fellowship/Internship Programs [Unpaid]
- CodeDay Labs (undergraduate, tracked by experience level)
- MinT (undergraduate, emphasis on overlooked and underserved students)
Preparation Programs [Unpaid]
- GitHub’s All In for Students (US only / students enrolled part time or full time at specific categories of 4-year institutions)
- MLH Fellowship Prep Program (global / [mostly students 18+)
Teaching Open Source
- Teaching Open Source (website, mailing list, virtual talks)
- Foss2serve (faculty teaching with humanitarian projects, POSSE workshops)
Self-Learning / Friendly Entry Points
- Open Source Basics (Emily’s favorite intro video, featuring a cookie recipe theme!)
- How to Open Source
- Hacktoberfest (annual event)
- GitHub’s Open Source Guides
- Linux Foundation Open Source Guides
- “Open Source Masterclass” MOOC
Finding an Issue/Project
Community
- Community Blueprint (share your story!)
- Cyberscape zine
- The Open Source Way
- Open Source Diversity (open source DEI hub)
- Contributor Covenant (code of conduct for communities)
Oft-Referenced Books
Best Practices & Metrics
Platform-Agnostic Open Source Conferences
Funding
- NSF POSE
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Better Software for Science
- Schmidt Futures’ Creating Platforms for Scale
- Mozilla Foundation
Licensing
- Choose a License
- TLDR Legal
- Wikipedia’s article on Open Source License
- UC’s Open Source Software Resources