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FOSSEE Summer Fellowship 2024 : Free/Libre and Open Source Software for Education

What is FOSSEE Summer Fellowship?

FOSSEE invites applications for the FOSSEE Summer Fellowship 2024. The students get an opportunity to work with the FOSSEE team for around 1.5 to 2 months. This is a remote (tentative) fellowship with support and mentoring by the FOSSEE team. To get shortlisted for the fellowship, select a project and choose a screening task from the table given below under screening task details. You have to complete at least one of the screening tasks. The selection will be purely based on the evaluation criteria of each screening task. Last Date of Fellowship is 22nd April 2024.

Related / Similar Fellowship : Goonj Setu Fellowship 2024-25

How to Participate in the FOSSEE Summer Fellowship?

** Students who are selected for this Fellowship can be from any college, pursuing any degree, and at any stage of their graduation/ post-graduation. The only criterion for selection is the successful completion of a screening task.
** Students desirous of getting selected for this Fellowship have to learn a Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) and complete some screening tasks.
** These tasks can involve programming/ scientific computing/ collecting data that will be of use to the community. These screening tasks are not very complicated and can be done over a period of two weeks.

Important Dates of FOSSEE Summer Fellowship

Last date of Registration 22 April 2024
Submission Period 31 March – 30 April 2024
Result announcement 7 May 2024
Commencement of the FOSSEE Summer Fellowship 2024 15 May 2024 (tentative)
Conclusion of the FOSSEE Summer Fellowship 2023 Mid July 2024

Selection Procedure of FOSSEE Summer Fellowship

** To register Please select one of the projects from the table given below and fill out this form to register.
** The submitted task will be reviewed by experts/ mentors from the FOSSEE team.
** After the review, the top submissions will be selected. The results of the selected fellows will be displayed on the website.
** The fellows will get the flexibility to work full-time (8 hrs a day) or part-time (4 hrs a day) during the fellowship.

Benefits of FOSSEE Summer Fellowship

** Opportunity to work with faculty from IIT Bombay
** Certificate of Fellowship
** Recognition on the FOSSEE website
Note: At the end of the fellowship you may receive an honorarium depending on the quality of work.

Rules & Regulation of FOSSEE Summer Fellowship

** Selected FOSSEE Fellows’ names will be displayed on the FOSSEE website, alternately they shall also receive an email regarding the selection on their registered email id. So it is important to fill in the correct details in the registration form.
** Once the Fellowship starts, every FOSSEE Fellow will be assessed every week based on the quality and quantity of the work. At any point, if the work is found unsatisfactory, the fellowship offer will be withdrawn.
** The content submitted for the screening task as well as the work done during the fellowship shall be released in open source.

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