11 OPEN-SOURCE PROGRAMS AND INTERNSHIPS YOU SHOULD PARTICIPATE IN AS A STUDENT

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With ASUU on strike and our President begging and shouting “enough is enough” instead of paying the wailing lecturers … there is a huge probability that this strike is not ending anytime soon.

So, you as a student shouldn’t lay idle waiting for ASUU to call off, leverage the free time to add value to yourself skill-wise. Opportunities are abundant and globally available to be harnessed.

Below are 11 open-source programs and internships that you can take advantage of as a student;

2022 SHELL NIGERIA STUDENT INDUSTRIAL TRAINING AND INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME

Apply Here – https://www.shell.com.ng/careers/students-and-graduates/student-industrial-training-and-internship-program.html
2022 GOOGLE SUMMER CODE PROGRAM

Google Summer of Code is a global, online program focused on bringing new contributors into open source software development. GSoC Contributors work with an open source organization on a 12+ week programming project under the guidance of mentors.

Apply Here – https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/
HACKING FOR A CONNECTED FUTURE: TOGETHER APART NIGERIA HACKATHON

Inspired by Ericsson promise to keep Africa in motion. Ericsson’s Nigeria Together Apart Hackathon is hacking for a connected future and solving global challenges. The theme-based hackathon aims to identify innovative and commercially viable solutions showcasing the power of connectivity and 5G in Nigeria.

Apply Here – https://www.ericsson.com/en/events/nigeria-hackathon
PwC NIGERIA TECH TALENT BOOTCAMP 2022 FOR YOUNG NIGERIANS – KICKSTART YOUR TECH CAREER

Get equipped with advanced tech skills, tools, and resources you need to excel in IT and secure a job with PwC Nigeria.

Apply Here – https://pwcbootcamp.xerdetech.com/
OPEN SUMMER CODE: INNOVATIVE OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS, MADE BY INCREDIBLY MOTIVATED STUDENTS, COACHES AND ORGANISATIONS.

A 4-week summer programme, that provides Belgian based students the training, network and support necessary to transform open innovation projects into powerful real-world services.

Apply Here – https://osoc.be/
WORK ON OPEN SOURCE AND OPEN SCIENCE: OUTREACHY PAID INTERNSHIPS

Outreachy provides internships in open source and open science. Outreachy provides internships to people subject to systemic bias and impacted by underrepresentation in the technical industry where they are living.

Apply Here – https://www.outreachy.org
SEASON OF DOCS: OPEN SPURCE COLLABORATION WITH TECHNICAL WRITERS

Season of Docs provides support for open source projects to improve their documentation and gives professional technical writers an opportunity to gain experience in open source. Together we raise awareness of open source, of docs, and of technical writing.

Apply Here – https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs
HYPERLEDGER MENTORSHIP PROGRAM

The Hyperledger mentorship program is aimed at creating a structured hands-on learning opportunity for new developers who may otherwise lack the opportunity to gain exposure to Hyperledger open source development and entry to the technical community. It also provides a more defined path for Hyperledger to connect with the next generation of student developers to inject more talent into its development community. Each mentee will apply and be matched with a mentor or mentors who are active developers in the Hyperledger community.

Apply Here – https://wiki.hyperledger.org/display/INTERN
LFX MENTORSHIP – THE LINUX FOUNDATION

LFX Mentorship makes it easy to sponsor and help train the next generation of open source developers by serving key needs of the community. Invest in building a stronger and more diverse community of qualified developers and engineers. More than 190 mentees have been accepted since the programs started in 2019, participating in 96 mentorship programs.

Apply Here – https://lfx.linuxfoundation.org/tools/mentorship/
LEARN BY DOING: MLH FELLOWSHIP – LEARN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING THROUGH OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS

A fully remote, 12-week internship where participants earn a stipend and learn to collaborate on real open source projects with peers and engineers from top companies.

Apply Here – https://fellowship.mlh.io

11. The X.Org Endless Vacation of Code (EVoC)

That program provides approximately US$5000 to students to spend their summer developing code for an open source project. Each student proposes a project and is matched with an organization mentor who guides and evaluates the work. GSoC was great for X.Org; we saw more than a dozen students through it, and some of these students went on to be extremely active contributors to X.Org.

Apply Here – https://www.x.org/wiki/XorgEVoC/

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