This is for approaching an institute to formally collaborate with them and having students as interns at fp.o
Intention of the program
To provide a guided means to Final and pre-Final year students to learn about how to produce Open Source Software and contribute to other areas of a Open Source Project, e.g translation, artwork, infrastructure management by working with an existing project like The Fedora Project.
This program will also enable students to acquire other necessary "soft skills" like responsibility, collaborative work, communicating and leadership, as they will work at an environment which is global not only in terms of countries, but also in terms of people, culture and work.
What is the delivery model
You are much better person to answer this. Please suggest. :)
Who would be the mentors
Interested (and competent) *@fedoraproject.org people.
What all would be pre-requisite to participate
At the initial stage, there would be two workshops, first one will be general overview, the second one is a follow up.
The first one will have no requisite. The second one will be only from the first workshop participants and generally its subset.
How would interns be selected
- At the end of second workshop, we will give each student a problem to
solve, and give them a time of 1-2 weeks. The problem should be chosen such a way that should test their intention. At this phase, they may ask people, collaborate and be familiar with the etiquettes.
- On successfully handling this, they can be taken on board, helped to
create account, made familiar with irc, mailing lists etc.
- Now they are interns.
How would they be 'Fedora' assimilated
They will now be given problems to choose from. This problems should be identified by the mentors. Their progress will be periodically verified at the mailing lists and may be at some irc meeting.
Can the project issue a certificate
Must. Otherwise a very few people will feel motivated to contribute at the early phase.