This is an opportunity to work for the organization that sponsors the GNU project, publishes the GNU General Public License (GPL), and fights for software freedom.

As an intern, you work closely with FSF staff members in your area of interest, such as campaign and community organizing, free software licensing, systems and network administration, GNU project support, or web development.

We will strongly prefer applicants able to work in-person at the FSF headquarters in downtown Boston, but applicants based elsewhere may also be considered.

Unfortunately, due to the complexities of US immigration law, applicants who are not US citizens or permanent residents and do not have a visa allowing them to work in the US must work remotely from outside the US.

These positions are unpaid, but the FSF will provide any appropriate documentation you might need to receive funding and school credit from outside sources.

Schedule

Each position lasts for one twelve-week term. There are three terms: summer, fall, and spring. There can be some flexibility with start and end dates if necessary.

Any of the terms can be worked as either full time (forty hours per week) or part-time (twenty hours per week) positions. We will prefer candidates able to work full time, particularly during the summer term.

2010-2011 terms

• Summer: June 14th to August 27th
• Fall: August 30th to December 3rd
• Spring: January 31st to April 29th

How to apply

Here are the application deadlines for each term:

• Summer: April 12th
• Fall: June 28th
• Spring: November 29th

All applicants must be:

• open-minded and tolerant of others,
• able to work as part of a team, and
• interested in the ethical ramifications of computing.

Send a letter of interest and resume with two references by e-mail to hiring@fsf.org. Make sure that your materials are in free software friendly formats (PDF and plain text work well), and include "Internship" in your subject line. If you can, please include links to sites you've made (personal blogs are okay!) designs or code you've done, and--most of all--things you've written. Please include these as URLs, though email attachments in free formats are acceptable too.

Please direct any questions about the program to info@fsf.org.