OOo QA Reloaded: Internship program

a follow up to blog: About one year of OOo QA Reloaded

The QA Reloaded Project and the general Mentoring and Participation Concept covers a lot of possibilities to connect and synchronize the OOo QA community with the SUN QA to optimize the quality of the OOo QA productivity suite. It range from small, specialized groups like the Database QA Team who currently overtake parts of daily QA work, to the new internship program, which should be the main topic for this blog.

The history of Internship in OOo QA area started after an open mail from a representative of the Hitek Computer School - Vancouver (Canada), which is a private educational institution focused on intensive training in Software QA and Software Testing, with a question if we, the OOo Team Leads, can afford their students a practice inside OOo QA.
In principal we already had worked out such an offer inside the OOo QA Reloaded Mentoring concept, but in this case we had several students for a limited time, who need rules, lessons and leading, so our concept had to be enhanced into this direction to not exclude such community groups and keep the community vibrant. So after a lot of mail traffic, we agreed to start a first test run with two former students, which should overtake the leadership of the following student groups, after passing a basic QA training. This was also a good occasion to create and test a new concept and fit it to the belongings of student- or similar groups.
After the course Natalia and Oleg became Group Leads (GL) for their student groups (group1,group2) and joined OOo QA Teams (Calc,Writer) as Team Members. With their acquired rights and knowledge, they also start to lead their groups trough the lessons (replaced the former, more general participation step rules) which include the general techniques and QA knowledge on OOo, with a big practical contingent. We started with ten student and eight finished this basic course. To complete the program, we added an individual project to give the students the possibility to get creative, show what they can and also have a work sample for their further job applications. Unfortunately Oleg had to give up the leadership of his group, because of private reasons, and so Natalia overtook the responsibility for all students. Because of this circumstance we decided to make only one common project and create three groups with three members. At the 25 May all groups had started with the project, which will last three months: Music Database.

bye Chris

tags: community ooo open open-source openoffice.org opensource qa quality software sun

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