DWOSI · Dev Weekends Open Source Initiative
Ship real products, not practice projects.
Students and early-career engineers contribute to products like Buildment, Pathment and Community Cloud, and get their pull requests reviewed by the engineers who maintain them.
Why DWOSI
Practice projects only take you so far
Tutorials teach syntax. Real products teach you how software gets built, reviewed and shipped.
Practice projects
- Nobody uses what you build.
- Nobody reviews your code.
- Your GitHub fills up with tutorial clones.
DWOSI projects
- Your code ships in real products, not throwaway demos.
- Maintainers review your pull request before it merges.
- Your profile shows merged work on live products.
How it works
Your first contribution in three steps
Pick a project
Choose a product below and get it running locally from its README.
See the projectsSay hi on Discord
Introduce yourself and ask a maintainer which issue to start with.
Join the Discord(opens in a new tab)Open a pull request
Push your change, get a review from a maintainer and watch it ship.
Browse repositories(opens in a new tab)
Projects
Products you can contribute to
Every DWOSI project is a working product, built in public by Dev Weekends engineers, mentors and students.
Buildment
Learning
An interactive course platform where you learn engineering by building projects, with several project variants per course so every learner's work is their own.
In development. Ask about it on Discord(opens in a new tab)
Pathment
Mentorship
A mentorship platform for organizations that run structured, mentor-guided training, with task-based workflows, progress tracking and gamification.
Community Cloud
Infrastructure
Contribute spare compute and submit workloads that a shared Kubernetes cluster schedules with Volcano, with monitoring and usage tracking built in.
In development. Ask about it on Discord(opens in a new tab)
More from DWOSI
Earlier-stage products and DSOC projects.
Inroad
Careers · AI
Finds companies that fit you, researches each one, finds the person who can hire you and drafts a note you send from your own Gmail.
GoalSlot
Productivity
Define goals, block time for them on your calendar, track deep work with a live timer and prove your progress with reports.
Content Control Platform
Learning content
Video and blog apps on shared infrastructure that guide each learner using their background, goals and what they have already watched or read.
In development. Ask about it on Discord(opens in a new tab)
Track record
Part of a community that ships
DWOSI is built by Dev Weekends, a free community of engineers. These are its published numbers.
- Members selected for Google Summer of Code 2026
- 9
- Open source stipends earned through GSoC and LFX
- $20K+
- Engineers in the Dev Weekends Discord
- 2,800+
- Engineers trained by Dev Weekends since 2018
- 1,000+
DSOC · Dev Weekends Summer of Code
Get a mentor and a stipend with DSOC
DSOC is the mentored summer program inside DWOSI. Selected contributors spend 10–12 weeks building a DWOSI project with a mentor, with progress reviewed every month.
The next cycle opens next summer.
- Coding period
- 10–12 wks
- Mentorship
- 1:1
- Stipend per milestone
- Monthly
- Per week
- 15–20 hrs
Pick a project and open your first pull request.
It's free, the code is public, and maintainers review what you send.