South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT stated on Monday it should recruit mentees for the “2026 Open Supply Contribution Academy” from Could 12 to June 14.
The Open Supply Contribution Academy is a practice-focused programme during which individuals be taught know-how from leader-level builders and contribute to actual initiatives. Any pupil or developer with fundamental software program improvement abilities can apply.
This 12 months, 11 initiatives can be found for participation, together with Apache Zeppelin, Node.js, Chromium and LLVM. Chosen mentees will obtain about 13 weeks of on-line and offline mentoring from 27 core builders for every challenge.
This 12 months, the academy will newly introduce a contribution course utilizing AI code evaluation and optimisation instruments corresponding to Claude Code and GPT.
After the programme ends, groups with robust outcomes will obtain 4 awards in whole, together with the minister’s award from the ministry and the president’s award from the Nationwide IT Business Promotion Company (NIPA), together with prize cash. Functions could be submitted on the Open Supply Hub.
Nam Cheol-gi (남철기), director normal for software program coverage on the ministry, stated expertise contributing to international open-source initiatives is an irreplaceable functionality for builders and, on the nationwide degree, a basis for securing technological sovereignty. He stated he hopes the academy will assist Korean builders change into main gamers within the international open-source ecosystem.