FOSSEE Summer Fellowship 2025
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Last updated on: 19 Mar 2025
The FOSSEE project invites applications for the FOSSEE Summer Fellowship 2025. The students get an opportunity to work with the FOSSEE team for around 1.5 to 2 months. This is a hybrid fellowship, where students can come to IIT Bombay campus if they wish, and physically work with the FOSSEE team. To get shortlisted for the fellowship, select a project and choose a screening task from the table given below. Complete at least one of the screening tasks and submit. The selection will be purely based on the evaluation criteria of each screening task.
How to Participate?
Students desirous of getting selected for this internship have to learn a Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) and complete at least one screening task. 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 in a week or two.
Registration and Selection Procedure:
- To register, please select one of the projects from the table given below and fill out this FOSSEE Summer Fellowship 2025 Registration Form.
- The submitted task will be reviewed by experts/ mentors from the FOSSEE team.
Terms of Engagement: Remote/ physical (according to the hostel availability), Full-time/ Part-time.
- Registration start date: 11 March 2025
- Last date of submission: 9 April 2025
- Declaration of Results: 15 April 2025
- Commencement of the Internship: 15 May 2025 (tentative)
- Internship duration: 15 May to 15 July 2025 (tentative)
Project Name | Brief description of the screening task | Weblink | Contact Email Id |
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Osdag |
Any one of the following:
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contact-osdag@fossee.in |
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eSim |
Any one of the following:
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contact-esim@fossee.in |
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FOCAL |
Any one of the following:
Task 2: Animation Creation Screening Task (* complete any one)
|
contact-focal@fossee.in |
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OpenFOAM CFD |
Simulating Heat Transfer In A Closed Cavity |
contact-cfd@fossee.in |
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OpenFOAM GUI |
Given in the Document are 2 sets of screening tasks, each set focusing on a particular skillset. The candidate may complete and submit any one out of the 2 tasks given. Task 1: Build mesh Task 2: Logic Nodes features given in the document. |
contact-cfd@fossee.in |
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Creation of the spoken tutorials on open source software |
Level 1 :ST Checklist test Level 2 :Submission of a 2 min Spoken Tutorial on a given topic |
contact-info@fossee.in |
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Web Development |
Any one of the following: Task 2: Extend the Olivero Theme |
contact-web@fossee.in |
If you need any help while submitting the screening task please feel free to contact the mentors at the email ids mentioned.
Benefits :
- Opportunity to work with faculty from IIT Bombay
- Certificate of FOSSEE summer 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 and Regulations :
- Once the fellowship starts, every 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.
- If you are unable to complete the minimum fellowship duration(1.5 months), your fellowship will not be considered.
- The decision of the FOSSEE team in declaring the results will be final. No queries in this regard will be entertained.