Debian continues participating in Outreachy, and as you might have already
noticed, Debian has selected two interns for the Outreachy December 2025 - March
2026 round.
After a busy contribution phase and a competitive selection process,
Hellen Chemtai Taylor and
Isoken Ibizugbe
are officially working as interns on Debian Images Testing with OpenQA for
the past month, mentored by Tássia Camões Araújo, Roland Clobus and
Philip Hands.
Congratulations and welcome Hellen Chemtai Taylor and Isoken Ibizugbe!
The team also congratulates all candidates for their valuable contributions,
with special thanks to those who manage to continue participating as volunteers.
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.
Join us and help to improve Debian! You can follow the work of the Outreachy
interns reading their blog posts (syndicated in
Planet Debian), and chat with the team at the
debian-openqa
matrix channel. For Outreachy matters, the programme admins can be reached on #debian-outreach
IRC/ matrix
channel and mailing list.