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What is open source? What is the free software movement?

We make take these ideas for granted, but Fedora Community Architect Justin Wheeler took time to explain what this is all about to our new @outreachy interns. :)

➡️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGS2qTFriU4

#OpenSource #Linux #Fedora […]

Week 13: Wrapping up my Outreachy internship with BugSigDB Illustration by Tosin Adeshile from canva It’s hard to believe that my Outreachy internship is already coming to an end. The past few months passed faster than I expected, and looking back, I feel …

Today marks the end of my Outreachy internship with BugSigDB under the @bioconductor.bsky.social community 🎉

I curated 12 oral microbiome studies for cMD and microbial signatures into BugSigDB.

Full report: tosinadeshile.wordpress.com/2026/03/06/w...
#Outreachy #OpenScience #BugSigDB

Outreachy May 2026 Hello everyone, The OCaml community has signed up to Outreachy May 2026 (see past posts)! What is Outreachy? Outreachy is a paid, remote internship program. Outreachy promotes diversity in open sou...

The #OCaml community will be taking part in #outreachy in May 2026. You can read more about it and consider signing up as a mentor at the following link 🐫

discuss.ocaml.org/t/outreachy-...

[ANN] YOCaml, a framework for static site generator [ANN] YOCaml 3.0.0 It had been a while since we announced a release of YOCaml (since 2.5.0), but this weekend we released version 3.0.0 (already available on OPAM)! Since version 2.5.0, many change...

🐫 Hey !
YOCaml 3.0 is out !

discuss.ocaml.org/t/ann-yocaml...

#ocaml #outreachy #ssg

I just published my Week 6 #Outreachy mid-internship blog reflecting on my experience so far as an intern working on #BugSigDB within @bioconductor.bsky.social

👉 tosinadeshile.wordpress.com/2026/01/17/w...

Huge thanks to my mentors for their guidance, a special thanks to @svetlanaup.bsky.social

EVERYONE STRUGGLES Struggle in a project like BugSigDB is rarely loud or dramatic. It shows up quietly, in the moments where familiarity meets responsibility. As I continued to review and curate articles in BugSigDB,…

Everyone struggles even in open science.

While contributing to #BugSigDB through @bioconductor.bsky.social and #Outreachy, I learned that asking questions, slowing down, & embracing uncertainty are part of meaningful work

I wrote about this in the blog: tosinadeshile.wordpress.com/2025/12/24/e...

Beginning My Outreachy Story🎉🎉🎉 My Outreachy Journey; Introduction I am super elated to mention that on December 1st, 2025, I got news I have been anticipating for over a year. I kept staring at my phone and was panicking probabl…

I am happy to share my #Outreachy introductory blog!

If you’d like to follow along, here is the link 👉 tosinadeshile.wordpress.com/2025/12/12/b...

Looking forward to connecting with others who find it helpful.

#Outreachy #OpenSource

outreachy interns

Hello from the @bioconductor.bsky.social community and our interns @tosina.bsky.social and @docteedee.bsky.social who will work with us on bugsigdb.org/Main_Page

Happy internship start to all #outreachy interns!

✨ Big news! ✨

I’ve been selected to join the @bioconductor.bsky.social community, where I’ll contribute to the #BugSigDB project for the next three months through #outreachy 🧬🔬

I’m so grateful to see my persistence and consistent efforts recognized by my mentors💙. I so love being here 🚀

Over a year with the Bioconductor Community (BugSigDB) HOW MY JOURNEY TO THE COMMUNITY BEGAN: My Journey began when i was fresh out of school as a biochemistry graduate as someone who had completed several internships in the field but still was not con…

I finally wrote about my experience contributing to Bioconductor and BugSigDB over the past year. If you’re interested in joining an open-source science community, this blog is a great place to start.

tosinadeshile.wordpress.com/2025/11/26/o...

#opensource #outreachy #bugsigdb #bioconductor

Special:Contributions/Tosin

Curious how scientists track microbes across diseases!🧫

That's #BugSigdb an open, community-edited database of microbial signatures.

I contributed through #Outreachy, curating studies💙.Thanks @svetlanaup.bsky.social & all my mentors🙏

🔗 bugsigdb.org/Special:Cont...
💻: github.com/waldronlab/B...

amazing program! never heard of #outreachy before!
any chance to get an official account for it on bsky?

mikrobiokosmos2025

NEXT WEEK -> #mbkceesme2025 🇬🇷

Drop me a line if you want to chat over ☕ about open science and open source: #BugSigDB #curatedMetagenomicData @microbiomevif.bsky.social #Outreachy @nsurp.bsky.social #microbiomedigest

👋 @mikrobiokosmos.bsky.social

Thank you to @outreachy intern Antony Nyagah for helping us improve our release schedule planner!

➡️ communityblog.fedoraproject.org/outreachy-internship-upd...

#Fedora #Outreachy #Linux #OpenSource

Outreachy Internship Update: Building the Fedora Release Schedule Planner API As part of my Outreachy internship with the Fedora Project, I’m building an API to modernize how Fedora plans its release cycles. With the help of my mentor Tomáš Hrčka, the goal is to replace the current XML-heavy system currently on pagure.io with something flexible, easy to use, and well-structured. Explore the source code on […] The post Outreachy Internship Update: Building the Fedora Release Schedule Planner API appeared first on Fedora Community Blog.

Outreachy Internship Update: Building the Fedora Release Schedule Planner API As part of my Outreachy internship with the Fedora Project, I’m building an API to modernize how Fedora plans its release cycles. With the help of my mentor Tomáš Hrčka, the goal is to replace the current XML-heavy system currently on pagure.io with something flexible, easy to use, and well-structured. Explore the source code on […] The post Outreachy Internship Update: Building the Fedora Release Schedule Planner API appeared first on Fedora Community Blog.

From Open Source User to Fedora Contributor This is the story of how I became a contributor on the Fedora Release Schedule Planner application hosted on Codeberg. I started my open-source journey when I got my first laptop. It was old and slow, but I needed it for school, so I started looking into how to fix this. My Introduction to Linux […] The post From Open Source User to Fedora Contributor appeared first on Fedora Community Blog.

From Open Source User to Fedora Contributor This is the story of how I became a contributor on the Fedora Release Schedule Planner application hosted on Codeberg. I started my open-source journey when I got my first laptop. It was old and slow, but I needed it for school, so I started looking into how to fix this. My Introduction to Linux […] The post From Open Source User to Fedora Contributor appeared first on Fedora Community Blog.

Victoria Poromon

Victoria Poromon

Victoria Poromon

Another GREAT mentee-mentor meeting!

(🤫 @toriaburah.bsky.social made an awesome plan after the #outreachy internship)

BugSigDB FROM SCRATCH: LEARNING HOW TO CURATE MICROBIOME STUDIES Hello again 👋 it’s been five weeks of my Outreachy internship with Bioconductor. I’m enjoying working with the Microbiome Study Curation project – BugSigDB, so much that I’m…

BugSigDB-ing from Scratch
by Anne-Marie Sharp

#outreachy @bioconductor.bsky.social

annemariesharp.wordpress.com/2025/07/07/b...

A Step-by-Step Guide to Publishing a BugSigDB Study
by @toriaburah.bsky.social

#outreachy @bioconductor.bsky.social

burah.hashnode.dev/step-by-step...

🆕 post by @toriaburah.bsky.social on "Creating an Issue":

The first time I heard the phrase, I was genuinely puzzled. A small voice in my head said, “Why are we creating problems for ourselves?” It sounded counterintuitive.

burah.hashnode.dev/open-source-...

#Outreachy @bioconductor.bsky.social

EVERYBODY STRUGGLES Photo by: Rudzhan Nagiev | Credit: Getty Images In my very first blog post, I mentioned that I kept mixing up the study designs at the start of the Outreachy contribution phase with the Bioconducto…

In a new blog post Anne-Marie Sharp wrote:

Even now, I don’t get it right every single time. But I’ve learned that asking, checking and discussing helps build stronger, more accurate curations and better curators.

annemariesharp.wordpress.com/2025/06/18/j...

#outreachy @bioconductor.bsky.social

During Season 4, I was particularly proud how the organizing team functioned smoothly!

And my #outreachy @bioconductor.bsky.social mentees made the team even stronger. THANKS Tosin @toriaburah.bsky.social @katerasheed.bsky.social !!

Anne-Marie Sharp Read as you follow me on my tech journey. On this space I'll share the highs, the lows and everything in between. Hope you enjoy, thank you.

We have TWO interns with us this summer!

Don't miss the blog post from our #outreachy intern Anne-Marie Sharp—discover her proudest contributions so far!

annemariesharp.wordpress.com

Outreachy Journey: Introduction Hello and welcome to my little corner of the internet. My name is Victoria Poromon, and I’m an Outreachy intern contributing to…

Let me introduce @toriaburah.bsky.social!

Victoria is my new mentee thanks to the #outreachy
program and @bioconductor.bsky.social community.

In the week 1 internship blog post, you can read about her core values:

💡 Patience
🤝 Community
🔍 Curiosity

More to come!
medium.com/@victoriapor...

Welcome Anne-Marie Sharp and @toriaburah.bsky.social as our #Outreachy interns! Thanks to all applicants for your contributions to #Bioconductor, #BugSigDB, and #OpenScience.