Season of Usability: Call for Student Participation
Are you a design student interested in contributing to an open source project? Here is your chance! OpenUsability is sponsoring their Season of Usability, an opportunity for students to participate in an interesting open source project with the aid of design and technical mentors. OpenUsability is a world-wide non-profit organization based in Germany whose mission is to bring usability and open source together.
These projects are mentored by professionals in the industry who are also very involved in open source. If accepted, these projects are structured enough and provide enough work to fulfill most independent study requirements. Additionally, students receive a $700USD stipend for their time which is a good amount to cover university fees.
~ Release from OpenUsability.org 20 Nov 2006 ~
Season of Usability 2006/2007 is part of a series of sponsored student projects to encourage students of usability, user-interface design, and interaction design to get involved with Freee/Libre/Open-Source Software (FLOSS) projects. FLOSS offers an excellent way to gain experience in the interdisciplinary and collaborative development of user interface solutions in international software projects.
During a three-month cooperation, you will closely work together with experienced professionals and get insights in to their way of work. Depending on your location, you will be invited to a meeting with the development and usability team. Otherwise the collaboration will take place via the established channels of OSS development - email, IRC, VoIP, and etc.
Season of Usability projects are sponsored with $700USD. An involvement of 15 hours per week is expected. The sponsorship will be paid after the successful accomplishment of the project goals.
For more information visit http://www.openusability.org/season/0607/