Hello, I want to revive this!
I talked to someone about the idea and what they think it would need to make it work in their organization. Here are the main points, and most boil down to having clear ideas and requirements that can shape the internship so it is helpful for interns and org as well as for showing one’s boss/org that it is worthwhile doing.
Things to clarify
- Clarify duration, compensation and time-per-week (should/can we model it on outreachy and just take their conditions?)
- Clarify how the intern would be chosen: Selection process and criteria
- Define how the collaboration would looke like: What are things they need to do? What are things that are not important to us.
- In general, make shure that the participant is supported and safe and communicating how we want to ensure this to all involved parties.
Mode of internship:
- In this case, getting 3 month of developer time would be hard to do; the participant could be embedded in a design team that works with the orgs developers. I think this is also ok, but the original dev-designer idea was that both intern at the same time. However, that adds additional complexity if the org does not run their own internship program already.
If I read correctly, there was the idea of working with outreachy, correct? (@Erioldoesdesign seemed to know more, could you update me?)
One idea from the convesation was the use some fund money to create the conditions and sync them back to the OSD community (e.g. asking superbloom if we could pay them to do that); I guess that is not an easy or fun volunteer task (In general: We might need to put money in the internship and in the stuff-around-the-internship to make it work well)