Haskell Internship Bounty Program

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Haskell Internship Bounty Program

Here's the general idea:

• Solve a pre-defined problem (could be an open source contribution OR an internal tool) for a bounty (basically success-fee). Not looking at GSoC level funding or problems, but something that can be done in 1-2 weeks with a 50-250$ bounty.
• Supported by mentoring and general help over slack/IRC.
• Idea is to NOT have multiple people compete for the same bounty, and to transparently publish the following data about open problems:
  • open problem OR being worked upon by someone
  • bounty amount
  • will become open again if the bounty is not claimed till such-and-such date. This point is important because it forces the intern to focus and commit to some sort of timeline. Our experience has been that interns (especially students) go off on multiple tangents, or get caught-up with course-work, and never end-up completing.

List of open problems

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ehxzht5yPy0GDRPxOc4JJmFm4oRFqHBqtRCLtqKdyno/edit#gid=0

or you can suggest your own well-defined, preferably narrowly-scoped, problem

How to reach out

Please do not comment below - we will not get notified of comments made on this Gist (it's a long-standing Github issue). Email at saurabh@vacationlabs.com

Great idea!

I really like this idea, especially not sacrificing the mentoring side.
Looks promising, count me in 😄!

Sounds good. I'm in.

I'm also interested!

Sign me up.

I'd be interested in this.

@vrom911 @quickdudley @ar-nelson can you follow-up via email to saurabh@vacationlabs.com -- I hope you get notified about this comment!

This is really thoughtful of you all. This is will continue to help close the gap between people who want Haskell experience and companies willing to help people attain it.