FOSSEE invites applications for the FOSSEE Summer Fellowship 2023 by IIT Bombay. The last date for registrations is April 14, 2023!
About FOSSEE
FOSSEE (Free/Libre and Open Source Software for Education) project promotes the use of FLOSS tools to improve the quality of education in our country. We aim to reduce dependency on proprietary software in educational institutions. We encourage the use of FLOSS tools through various activities to ensure commercial software is replaced by equivalent FLOSS tools. We also develop new FLOSS tools and upgrade existing tools to meet requirements in academia and research. The FOSSEE project is part of the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Ministry of Education (MoE), Government of India.
About FOSSEE Summer Fellowship
FOSSEE invites applications for the FOSSEE Summer Fellowship 2023. The students get an opportunity to work with FOSSEE for approximately 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 need to complete at least one of the screening tasks. The selection will be purely based on the evaluation criteria of each screening task.
Eligibility Criteria
- Students from any institution, pursuing any degree, and at any point of their graduation or post-graduation may be chosen for this Fellowship.
- The successful completion of a useful undertaking serves as the sole selection criterion.
- Students who are interested in being chosen for this fellowship must become familiar with FLOSS and finish some screening tasks.
- These screening tasks are not very complicated and can be done over a period of two weeks. These tasks can involve programming/ scientific computing/ conducting awareness workshops/ collecting data that will be of use to the community.
Registration and Selection Process
- To register Please select one of the projects from the table given below and fill out the 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.
Important Dates
| Last date of Registration | April 14, 2023 |
| Submission period | March 31- April 21 2023 |
| Result announcement | April 28, 2023 |
| Commencement of the FOSSEE Summer Fellowship 2023 | May 07, 2023 (tentative) |
| Conclusion of the FOSSEE Summer Fellowship 2023 | Mid July, 2023 |
Benefits
- 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 your work.
How to Apply?
Interested Candidates can register through this link.
Rules and Regulations
- 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.
Click here to view official notifications of the FOSSEE Summer Fellowship 2023 by IIT Bombay.
