Hyperledger Technical Community:

Today, we’re excited to open the call for the 2019 internship mentors and project ideas. We’re looking to sponsor 15 internship projects this year.

The Hyperledger internship program is aimed at creating a structured hands-on learning opportunity for college students who may otherwise lack the opportunity to gain exposure to Hyperledger open source development and entry to the technical community. It also provides a more defined path for Hyperledger to connect with the next generation of student developers to inject more talent into its developer base.

If you’ve identified a project or task that’s suitable for an internship project and you’re interested in mentoring a student developer, please define the project by completing the internship project proposal template on the wiki before February 22. Additional timeline for this year’s program is as follows:

• Call for Internship Projects and Mentors: January 28 - February 22, 2019
  
• TSC Review and Approval of Internship Projects: February 22 - February 28, 2019
  
• Application Period: March (and possible through April 12, 2019)
  
• Application Review and Applicant Interview: April
  
• Intern Acceptance: end of April
  
• Intern/Mentor Introduction and Onboarding: May
  
• Intern Start Date: June 3, 2019
  
• Full-time Intern Completion Date: August 23, 2019 (12 consecutive weeks)
  
• Part-time Intern Completion Date: November 15, 2019 (24 consecutive weeks)
  

A few things to note as you plan to submit a project for consideration:

• Multiple mentors supervising one intern per project would be desirable as this helps spread the workload and reduce the challenge of coverage caused by working remotely with an intern in a different time zone.
  
• The mentor(s) need to be familiar with the project and is/are expected to directly supervise the intern’s technical work.
  
• The proposed project needs to be clearly scoped and structured to be suitable for an internship project.
  
• The project should be related to one of the current Hyperledger frameworks or tools.
  
• The mentor(s) should be ready to be the sponsor of the internship project as a Hyperleger Lab when the internship commences. This ensures that the project progress can be tracked and the project output can be publicly accessible to the community.