Expectations During the Internship

Before you apply - please ensure you can take the time to spend doing at least 6 to 8 hours per week on these internships:

1 hour a week for a project meeting with your supervisor and your teammates,
1 hour a week for a co-working session with your teammates,
1 hour a week keeping track of emails and organising yourself, and
the rest working on projects in your own time and asking 10+ questions a week at standups that run twice a day but are not mandatory

Also please ensure you:

ask 10+ questions a week about your project (this link shows you how many questions were asked in Intake 13 - Semester 2),
email a group weekly report before your meeting each week,
4 touch points per week with your supervisor (project meeting, weekly group email summary, and two other interactions)
keep an Individual Learning Plan (ILP) and a technical diary,
keep on top of the emails sent about your internship (there are a lot!),
keep an up to date calendar so you can plan your week, and
let your supervisor by email if you are unable to work on the internship.

Open source contributors

Sometimes, we are in contact with students who cannot get course credit and are extremely keen to volunteer as an open source software contributor. In these situations, we have to be careful we do not act in an exploitative way. This is why we have written our expectations of potential open source contributors to make the expectations more transparent.