We're excited to announce that Debian has selected seven interns to work with us during the next months: two people for Outreachy, and five for the Google Summer of Code.

Here is the list of projects and the interns who will work on them:

Android SDK Tools in Debian

• Saif Abdul Cassim
• Katerina

Package Loomio for Debian

• utkarsh2102

Debian Cloud Image Finder

• Arthur Diniz

Debian Patch Porting System

• Jaskaran Singh

Continuous Integration

• Saira Hussain
• Candy Tsai

Congratulations and welcome to all the interns!

The Google Summer of Code and Outreachy programs are possible in Debian thanks to the efforts of Debian developers and contributors that dedicate part of their free time to mentor interns and outreach tasks.

Join us and help extend Debian! You can follow the interns weekly reports on the debian-outreach mailing-list, chat with us on our IRC channel or on each project's team mailing lists.

Debian is dedicated to increasing the diversity of contributors to the project and improving the inclusivity of the project. We strongly believe working towards these goals provides benefits both for people from backgrounds that are currently under-represented in free software, and for the wider movement, by increasing the range of skills, experiences and viewpoints contributing to it.

As part of this outreach effort, Debian is participating in the next round of Outreachy.

The application period for the May 2019 to August 2019 round has been extended until April 2, and Debian offers the following projects:

• Continuous Integration for biological applications inside Debian
• Debian Continuous Integration: user experience improvements
• Reproducible Builds

Outreachy invites applicants who are women (both cis and trans), trans men, and genderqueer people to apply. Anyone who faces systemic bias or discrimination in the technology industry of their country is also invited to apply.

Don't wait up! You can learn more details on how to submit your application or get help in our wiki page for Outreachy and the Outreachy website.

Debian is also participating in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) with eight projects, and the student application period is open until April 9.

You can learn more details on how to submit your GSoC application or get help for in our wiki page for GSoC and the Google Summer of Code website.

We encourage people who are elegible for Outreachy and GSoC to submit their application to both programs.

Debian is applying as a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code 2019, an internship program open to university students aged 18 and up, and will apply soon for the next round of Outreachy, an internship program for people from groups traditionally underrepresented in tech.

Please join us and help expanding Debian and mentoring new free software contributors!

If you have a project idea related to Debian and can mentor (or can coordinate the mentorship with some other Debian Developer or contributor, or within a Debian team), please add the details to the Debian GSoC2019 Projects wiki page by Tuesday, February 5 2019.

Participating in these programs has many benefits for Debian and the wider free software community. If you have questions, please come and ask us on IRC #debian-outreach or the debian-outreach mailing list.

We're excited to announce that Debian has selected twenty-six interns to work with us during the next months: one person for Outreachy, and twenty-five for the Google Summer of Code.

Here is the list of projects and the interns who will work on them:

A calendar database of social events and conferences

• Doğukan Çelik

Android SDK Tools in Debian

• Saif Abdul Cassim (GSoC 2018 Android SDK tools in Debian)
• Chandramouli Rajagopalan (Packaging and Updating Android SDK Tools)
• Umang Parmar (Android SDK Tools in Debian)

Automatic builds with clang using OBS

• Athos Ribeiro

Automatic Packages for Everything

• Alexandre Viau

Click To Dial Popup Window for the Linux Desktop

• Diellza Shabani
• Sanjay Prajapat
• Vishal Gupta

Design and implementation of a Debian SSO solution

• Birger Schacht

EasyGnuPG Improvements

• Divesh Uttamchandani

Extracting data from PDF invoices and bills for financial accounting

• Harshit Joshi

Firefox and Thunderbird plugin for free software habits

• Enkelena Haxhija

GUI app for EasyGnuPG

• Yugesh Ajit Kothari

Improving Distro Tracker to better support Debian teams

• Arthur Del Esposte

Kanban Board for Debian Bug Tracker and CalDAV servers

• Chikirou Massiwayne

OwnMailbox Improvements

• Georgios Pipilis

P2P Network Boot with BitTorrent

• Shreyansh Khajanchi

PGP Clean Room Live CD

• Jacob Adams

Port Kali Packages to Debian

• Samuel Henrique

Quality assurance for biological applications inside Debian

• Liubov Chuprikova

Reverse Engineering Radiator Bluetooth Thermovalves

• Sergio Alberti

Virtual LTSP Server

• Deepanshu Gajbhiye

Wizard/GUI helping students/interns apply and get started

• Elena Gjevukaj
• Minkush Jain
• Shashank Kumar

Congratulations and welcome to all of them!

The Google Summer of Code and Outreachy programs are possible in Debian thanks to the efforts of Debian developers and contributors that dedicate part of their free time to mentor interns and outreach tasks.

Join us and help extend Debian! You can follow the interns weekly reports on the debian-outreach mailing-list, chat with us on our IRC channel or on each project's team mailing lists.

We'd like to welcome our three Outreachy interns for this round, lasting from December 2017 to March 2018.

Juliana Oliveira is working on reproducible builds for Debian and free software.

Kira Obrezkova is working on bringing open-source mobile technologies to a new level with Debian (Osmocom).

Renata D'Avila is working on a calendar database of social events and conferences for free software developers.

Congratulations, Juliana, Kira and Renata!

From the official website: Outreachy provides three-month internships for people from groups traditionally underrepresented in tech. Interns work remotely with mentors from Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) communities on projects ranging from programming, user experience, documentation, illustration and graphical design, to data science.

The Outreachy programme is possible in Debian thanks to the efforts of Debian developers and contributors who dedicate their free time to mentor students and outreach tasks, and the Software Freedom Conservancy's administrative support, as well as the continued support of Debian's donors, who provide funding for the internships.

Debian will also participate this summer in the next round for Outreachy, and is currently applying as mentoring organisation for the Google Summer of Code 2018 programme. Have a look at the projects wiki page and contact the Debian Outreach Team mailing list to join as a mentor or welcome applicants into the Outreachy or GSoC programme.

Join us and help extend Debian!