The OpenUsability Season of Usability will be supporting 10 students 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 students@....

* 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 students@... 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
students@....

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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Season of Usability Organisation

http://season.openusability.org
www.openusability.org