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Featured · 5 June 2026
Fellowship 2026 applications are now closed. Here is what comes next
Fellowship applications are closed, but the doors to Dev Weekends are not. Public sessions, DSOC contributions, and a self-paced mentorship track are all on the way. Here is how to stay in the loop.
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news · 5 June 2026
Fellowship 2026 by the numbers: 3,000+ applied, 1,072 selected
More than 3,000 students applied to Dev Weekends Fellowship 2026. We selected 1,072, drawn from 222 universities across 30 countries. Here is the full picture.
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news · 6 May 2026
9 Dev Weekends contributors got into Google Summer of Code 2026, and 5 more into other open-source programs
The acceptance emails came in over a few weeks. Apache Beam, NumFOCUS, EMBL-EBI, FLARE, BRL-CAD, FOSSASIA, and a handful of others. Here are the people behind them and the quiet road that led there.
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news · 23 September 2026
Talha Amjad selected for LFX Mentorship 2026 at CNCF, contributing to Volcano
Dev Weekends fellow Talha Amjad has been selected for Linux Foundation LFX Mentorship 2026 Term 3 under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. He will work on Generic xPU Topology-Aware Scheduling in Volcano, the Kubernetes batch scheduler.
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news · 18 April 2026
What actually happens at a Dev Weekends Tech Grind
2 days. 12 hours each. No stage, no slides, no swag. A room full of people who came to actually finish the thing they have been talking about for months.
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news · 21 September 2025
Summer Fellowship 2025 impact report: 800 fellows, 100 certified, 442 projects
Summer Fellowship 2025 had 800 fellows. 100 finished and were certified, built 442 projects and solved 8,000 LeetCode problems. Here is what came out of it.
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