The first round of our open source fellowship is up and running. Since this is a rolling call with a spring and a fall session it is already time to announce the second round:
We invite professionals, students, retirees, hobbyists, and other individuals to propose projects for funding until September 30th. Selected Open Source Fellows get financial support and mentorship from Tweag I/O to bring their own ideas into practice.
The spirit is the following:
From the many awesome ideas out there, we want to fund those that seem most beneficial for the open source software community. We also try to invest in projects that profit most from our participation - projects that wouldn’t be funded otherwise and that can really benefit from our expertise.
As a reminder of what we have written previously about this Fellowship:
The Fellowship is open for all to apply, regardless of age or career stage — or any other discerning characteristic. It is also independent of community: you, the Fellow, could come from the Python, Javascript, or functional programming community, for example. You could also be a physicist, a biologist, a statistician, someone who loves graphics, or someone who does something that we have never heard about. The only restriction is that your project is related to creating software, and that we can help with our own expertise. What counts is that you have a plan which we can realize together within limited time.
The contribution needn’t just be code: we’re also open to supporting research, tutorials, documentation, design specifications, etc. We also provide mentorship during the Fellowship, which can take place at any 12-week-long mutually convenient time during the year. Fellowships will be selected in a competitive review. Further details — and how to apply — can be found here.
This fellowship program naturally evolved out of an experience that we made again and again at Tweag: Great ideas come from passionate individuals — independent of their professional position or financial backing. We want to listen, and accelerate such ideas into something that is useable and openly available.
About the authors
Matthias initiates and coordinates projects at Tweag. He says he's a generalist "half scientist, half musician, and a third half of other things" but you'll have to ask him what that means exactly! He lives in Paris, and is regularly in Tweag's Paris office where you'll most likely find him in a discussion, writing long-form texts in vim or reading and occasionally writing code.
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