Season of Usability 2009: Call for Students
el...@reitmayr.net
to work on 10 open source projects during the June 1 - August 31 2009
season. The Season of Usability is a series of sponsored student
projects to encourage students of usability, user-interface design,
and interaction design to get involved with Free/Libre/Open-Source
Software
(FLOSS) projects.
The student application period is open until May 20 2009. The Season
of Usability runs from June 1 to August 31 2009.
Student Requirements
* You must be an undergraduate or graduate level student enrolled at a
College or University as of January 1 2009. (Recent graduates are
eligible to apply)
* You must be a student of design, usability, human factors or other
HCI-related major. Computer science and information systems students
who are interested in applying must have had at least one course in
human factors, user interface design, or human-computer interaction.
* Students from any country are eligible to apply; however, some
English skills are necessary.
* You must be able to dedicate 10-15 hours a week to work on your
project. This time requirement may vary from week to week depending on
your project activities and responsibilities.
* After successful completion of your project and a satisfactory
rating from your mentors, you will receive a $1000 USD stipend for
your work.
* You are not required to have knowledge of a programming language,
nor will there be programming requirements to the internship.
How to apply:
* Review the available projects and decide which project you would
like to apply to.If you have any questions, please send them to
stud...@openusability.org.
* Prepare a résumé or curriculum vitae with relevant education, work,
and open source experience.
* Prepare a single page cover explaining why you would like to work
with your chosen project.
* All materials must be submitted in Open Document Format (ODF) or
Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF).
* Send your documents to stud...@openusability.org by May 20 2009.
Please include the name of the project you are applying to in the
email Subject.
* If you would like to apply to more than one project, please send
separate application packages.
2009 Projects
* Amarok
* Drupal
* Gallery
* GeneMANIA
* GNOME
* Kadu
* KOrganizer
* OLM
* SemNotes
* Ubuntu
See the http://season.openusability.org/index.php/projects for more
information on the projects and how to apply. Applications are due May
20 2009.
Questions about the projects or application process may be directed to
stud...@openusability.org.
We would like to thank our sponsors, Google and Canonical, as well as
our many mentoring organizations for making this Season of Usability
possible.
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Ellen Reitmayr
Season of Usability Organisation