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Working Together toward OSS excellence

If you’re interested in supporting students in nations with emerging economies or have a passion for open source and its possibilities, there is a place for you in a POSSEE Pyramid.

Leadership

OSS Maintainer
Prerequisites:
  • Commit rights to a repo

Responsibilities:
  • Advise on the overall direction and development of the project
  • Review Interns’ PRs after they were approved by the Tech Lead
  • Time commitment: 1-2 hrs per week
Technical Lead
Prerequisites:
  • Interest in learning and promoting best practices in open source software development
  • Experience teaching or mentoring in CS, DS, and IT related disciplines
  • Excellent communication, motivational, and interpersonal skills

Responsibilities:
  • Lead the technical development of a project, including determining project requirements and creating a roadmap
  • Communicate the needs of an OSS project to the mentors and Interns 
  • Time commitment: 8-10 hrs per week
Project Manager
Prerequisites:
  • Prior experience in supporting technical projects

Responsibilities:
  • oversee the overall success of the project
  • Partner with the Tech Lead to optimize pod’s work 
  • Design processes and improve communication within the pod
  • Represent the pod to external stakeholders
  • Time commitment: as needed, up to 4 hrs per week
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Mentorship

Professional Mentor
Prerequisites
  • Interest in helping students 
  • Experience teaching CS, DS, and IT related disciplines

Responsibilities:
  • Communicate the needs of the OSS project to the assigned Interns
  • Review Interns’ PRs Provide friendly and caring support to the assigned Interns
  • Meet with the assigned Interns at least once a week
  • Time commitment: 2-20 hrs per week
Student Mentor

Prerequisites

  • Recent degree (or near completion) at a partner academic institution
  • Completion of classes or work experience related to the objectives of the project


Responsibilities:

  • Communicate the needs of the OSS project to the assigned Interns
  • Review Interns’ PRs
  • Provide friendly and caring support to the assigned Interns
  • Meet with the assigned Interns at least once a week
  • Time commitment: 8-20 hrs per week
Participate as a Mentor

Internship

Intern

Prerequisites

  • Recent degree or current enrollment at a partner academic institution 
  • Completion of classes or work experience related to the objectives of the project
  • Proficiency in English


Responsibilities:

  • Complete assigned tasks in a timely manner
  • Attend project related meetings  
  • Time commitment: 15-40 hrs per week
  • Internship term: 12 weeks, with possibility of extension
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POSSEE Leader testimonials

"I lead a POSSEE pod to work on a new Python library called Narwhals. Thanks to the support provided by POSSEE, we were able to get the project off the ground - the API is now fully documented, benchmarks implemented, useful features added, tutorial written, community call and Discord set up...if it hadn't been for POSSEE then many of these things either would not have happened, or would have taken a lot longer to happen. Narwhals is now a required dependency of Altair and scikit-lego, and several other major libraries are eyeing it up, and I'm grateful to POSSEE for having believed in the project!."
Marco Gorelli
Marco Gorelli
"The POSSEE interns played an instrumental role in the successful launch of the scikit-learn user survey. Their enthusiasm, growth mindset, and excellent work ethic turned our collaboration into a rewarding experience."
Inessa Pawson
Inessa Pawson
"My entire experience with POSSEE was enjoyable. The support at OpenTeams was friendly and helpful. I got a chance to work on a meaningful project and mentor several interns to gain valuable skills working with the open source community. This program helped me gain a better vision of what education could be."
Ben Woodruff
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