**PLEASE NOTE THIS POST IS NOW OBSOLETE – PLEASE INSTEAD REFER TO [THIS POST](https://archivedblog.jonobacon.com/2010/03/23/ubuntu-community-team-opportunities-second-draft/) REGARDING THESE OPPORTUNITIES. THIS IS MERELY HERE FOR HISTORICAL REFERENCE.**

Today I am pleased to announce two fantastic opportunities for two enthusiastic, motivated and energetic folks to come and join my team for a six month internship. You will join Daniel Holbach, Jorge Castro, and David Planella as team-mates and report to myself as honorary horse-folk, working on awesome solutions to help make Ubuntu an ever more compelling community to be a part of.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work inside a fast-paced, collaborative environment, solving important problems, working with awesome colleagues and adding Canonical as a rocking reference to your resume.

Before we get to the details about the roles, I want to be clear on a few general elements:

* These are internships: they are are not normal full roles.
* Like most internships, these roles are unpaid.
* Each role lasts for six months.
* Working hours are Mon – Fri from 9am – 5pm.

I want to be clear that my team is a fast-paced, hard-working, hectic environment. I am going to work you hard, and you should expect that, but my goal here is to help you squeeze every ounce of opportunity out of your internship. We will have 1-on-1 weekly calls, I will help guide you on what to work on, help you manage your work, solve problems, and be effective in your projects. In other words: when you sign up for your internship, expect a solid six month adventure, but an adventure that will sow the seeds for many great opportunities in the future.

So, I am looking for two roles:

* Ubuntu Community Documentation Author (Internship)
* Ubuntu Community Web Developer (Internship)

Let’s take a look at the job descriptions:

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### Ubuntu Community Documentation Author (Internship)

**Job Title**: Ubuntu Community Documentation Author (Internship)

**Reports to**: Ubuntu Community Manager

**Job Location**: Home with some travel engagements.

**Job Summary**: To produce documentation and online materials for the Ubuntu community and new contributors.

**Key responsibilities and accountabilities**:

1. Produce a series of well-written and clear materials about a range of different topics in the Ubuntu community surrounding how to participate.
2. Make these materials available on line and ensuring they follow style and quality guidelines.
3. Work with the Ubuntu Documentation Team, Learning Team and Ubuntu Manual project to liaise around collaboration and best practise for materials production.
4. Promote and raise awareness of this documentation inside and outside the Ubuntu community.
5. Identify common needs and requirements for materials, prioritize them and build them into your workflow.

#### REQUIREMENTS

**Specific Job Skills**: Excellent writing skills, strong networking and social networking skills, good relationship building abilities, process driven, able to manage multiple work streams, good prioritisation, independent, willing to travel potentially 25% of their work time, and able to resolve conflict.

**Experience**: Experience of working with community in Ubuntu and Open Source projects, experience of the upstream/distributor relationship, technical experience.

**Key Qualities**: Have strong social skills, a good networker and a good technical knowledge of Ubuntu and the Open Source and upstream/downstream development process. Candidates should be process driven, strategically minded and committed. Competent visual design and artistic talent is highly desirable.
Other: Candidates should provide evidence of existing experience and work in the Open Source community and suitable references.

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### Ubuntu Community Web Developer (Internship)

**Job Title**: Ubuntu Community Web Developer (Internship)

**Reports to**: Ubuntu Community Manager

**Job Location**: Home with some travel engagements.

**Job Summary**: To design and develop web functionality across a range of Ubuntu community infrastructure web properties.

**Key responsibilities and accountabilities**:

1. In conjunction with the team and the community, design new features and solutions for specific needs in our key web properties.
2. Develop and implement such features and solutions using a range of appropriate tools.
3. Provide solid testing and quality assurance over your work during the development phase and before deployment.
4. Triage, fix and deploy bug fixes.
5. Work with the community to collaborate together on projects and solutions.
6. Report your progress to the team and the wider community.
7. Be responsive to changing needs, emergency fixes and feature requests and be reactive to a range of different customers.

#### Requirements

**Specific Job Skills**: Excellent web development skills (Python, Django, PHP, HTML, CSS and Database experience are a must), good experience of Launchpad, Bazaar and Ubuntu community infrastructure, strong networking and social networking skills, process driven, able to manage multiple work streams, good prioritisation, independent, willing to travel potentially 25% of their work time, and able to resolve conflict.

**Experience**: Experience of working on collaborative web development projects in Python, Django and PHP, strong development experience over a range of projects, experience of working with community in Ubuntu and Open Source projects.

**Key Qualities**: Excellent developer, strong social skills, a good networker and a good technical knowledge of Ubuntu and the Open Source and upstream/downstream development process. Candidates should be process driven, strategically minded and committed. Competent visual design and artistic talent is highly desirable.

**Other**: Candidates should provide evidence of existing experience and work in the Open Source community and suitable references.

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## How To Apply

If you are interested in applying for these roles **do not contact me directly**, you should follow these steps:

1. Ensure you have a recent, up to date resume (in PDF or OpenOffice.org format) that outlines your experience, education, your community achievements, technical background and information about your interests and ambitions.
2. Send an email to `alice.paul` AT `canonical` DOT `com` with the subject *Community Team Internship Application* and the following details:
* Specify which role you are interested in.
* Your resume attached.
* A few paragraphs about why you would like to have the role.

Good luck and I will speak to some of you soon in an interview!

As many of you wonderful people of the Internet should be intimately aware of, the [Ubuntu Global Jam](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGlobalJam) takes place from the **26th – 28th March 2010**. That is only a few weeks away, and while we have some great events already set up, we need more!

I just wanted to highlight how simple it is to put together an event. I explained much of this in my recent live videocast today:

*Can’t see it? Watch it [here](https://www.ustream.tv/recorded/5495004)!*

I was keen to summarize much of the key points here though so this post can be linked to so we can spread some best practice around how easy it is to put together an event.

*Ubuntu Global Jam* events are simple events designed to get Ubuntu users and contributors in the same room to work together and contribute to Ubuntu. This can happen through any means: testing, documentation writing, working on a LoCo team, development or whatever else. The key focus here is on getting people together and having fun with Ubuntu.

Let’s look at how to put together an event. 🙂

### Step 1: Pick a date

The *Ubuntu Global Jam* takes place on three days:

* Fri 26th March 2010
* Sat 27th March 2010
* Sun 28th March 2010

The first step is to pick a date for the event to happen. There is no fixed time of how long a jam should be it: it could be a few hours or a few days: it does not need to take place on all days. Just pick the times that work well for you. 🙂

### Step 2: Pick a venue

The next step is to pick a place to hold your event. One of the misconceptions about global jam events is that they need to be big, professional, full-on events. Not at all! Many are simple, low-key events that are pretty much like most LUG meetings: a group of Open Source fans getting together to have fun and work on Ubuntu together.

When choosing a place I recommend you ensure the following are available as a bare minimum:

* Enough seating for ten or so people.
* An freely available Internet connection.
* Optional but preferable is access to refreshments (e.g. in a coffee shop).

A few great options for venues are:

* Coffee shops
* Bars
* University/school buildings
* Restaurants
* Homes
* If it is a nice day, what about a picnic at a park? 🙂

Importantly, you often don’t need to inform the venue that you are going. Just choose a venue (e.g. a coffee shop) and just show up like any other day.

### Step 3: Add your event

The next step is to add your event to the list of events that are going as part of the *Ubuntu Global Jam*.

We are in the process of moving over to our [dedicated LoCo teams LoCo directory](https://loco.ubuntu.com) but as we are in a transitional period, we are also asking LoCo teams to list their events on the old wiki page too. As such, to add your events just follow these instructions:

#### The LoCo Directory

To add an event to the LoCo directory you will need to be a member of your LoCo team in Launchpad.

1. Go to [https://loco.ubuntu.com](https://loco.ubuntu.com) and in the top right on the page, log in.
2. Click the *Venues* link.
3. Check to see if the venue you are holding your event at is in the list. If not, click the *Add new venue* link and add the venue to the system.
4. Click [here](https://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/add/) to straight to the page to add a new event. On that page, click on the team that the event will be happening as part of and then fill in the form. Be sure to select *Global Jam* in the *Related Global Event* drop-down box.

#### The Wiki Page

Simply go to [this page](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGlobalJam/Events) and add your event to it.

### Step 4: Build some buzz!

Now is the time to spread the word about your event and encourage people to come along! Here are some ideas:

* Be sure to tweet/dent, and post on Facebook about the event. When you add the event to the LoCo directory you will have a link to point people at (e.g. my event’s link is [this](https://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/39/detail/)) – send multiple messages to remind people of the event and keep it upfront in their minds.
* Blog it – particularly if your blog appears on one of the planets.
* Post to your LoCo’s mailing list – let them know about the event, when it is and where it is.
* Post to local LUG mailing lists – let your local LUGs know: many people may want to come along and join the event!
* Put up fliers – fliers in libraries, computer shops, universities and at the venue itself are great ways to get people to join you.
* Website buttons – why not create some website buttons so attendees can put them on their website and link to your event page in the LoCo directory.

And that’s it! If you have any questions, here are a few useful resources:

* [Mailing List](https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts) – this is where the LoCo community discuss general LoCo related topics. In most cases cases [teams have mailing lists too](https://lists.ubuntu.com/#Ubuntu+Worldwide+LoCo+Teams).
* `#ubuntu-locoteams` on Freenode – this is an online discussion channel where you can ask questions and socialize with other LoCo community members.

I look forward to seeing you good folks organizing your events and having a great time! 🙂

One of the most wonderful sub-communities in the Ubuntu world are our [LoCo Teams](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeams); the global span of Ubuntu advocacy groups that are out there every day helping to spread the word about Ubuntu. These wonderful people are on the front-lines helping people to get started with Ubuntu and providing a fantastic place to meet, greet and have fun with other Ubuntu users and contributors.

In terms of resources for this community, we have the following key components:

* [Wiki Pages](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeams) – these wiki pages include best practise and details about how to join the community.
* [Teams List](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeamList) – this is the big list of teams, complete with contact details and online resources.
* [Mailing List](https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts) – this is where the LoCo community discuss general LoCo related topics. In most cases cases [teams have mailing lists too](https://lists.ubuntu.com/#Ubuntu+Worldwide+LoCo+Teams).
* `#ubuntu-locoteams` on Freenode – this is an online discussion channel where you can ask questions and socialize with other LoCo community members.

One component we have been keen to fix is the *listing of LoCo teams and associated resources and events*. We have discussed this over a few UDSs and I am pleased to show off some work that has been going into making our LoCo portal really effective. Thanks to the wonderful LoCo Directory hackers who have been feverishly working away on this project. You can go and play with it at [https://loco.ubuntu.com](https://loco.ubuntu.com).

The LoCo directory looks like this:

Right now it has the following key features:

* **Teams** – a list of all the LoCo teams in the community.
* **Venues** – a list of venues used by LoCo teams (useful so you don’t need to repeatedly enter new venue information each time you organize and event and also good for sharing good venues with other LoCo team members).
* **Events** – events can be saved to the system and associated with LoCo teams as well as global events such as the [Ubuntu Global Jam](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGlobalJam).

If you click on the *Teams* link you can see the list of LoCo teams:

This is the full list of teams. Teams that have a humanity colored Ubuntu circle of friends next to them are *Approved* teams, otherwise it is colored gray and indicates the team is not yet approved. Already this makes finding teams much nicer for new Ubuntu members: just point them at [https://loco.ubuntu.com/teams/](https://loco.ubuntu.com/teams/) 🙂

When you click on a team you see more information about the team and their resources/events. As an example, here is my local team *Ubuntu California*:

The team information page shows some key details such as the owner, admins, when the team is next up for re-approval and also links to a series of resources such as websites, IRC channels, forums etc. The page also rather nicely shows their logo. 🙂

Not only this, but the page also shows a list of events that have been organized by the team. In the screenshot above there are two events (they are a little squashed, that is a bug). Clicking on an event shows the details for that specific event. As an example, here are the details for the *Ubuntu Global Jam* event that I have organized in a few weeks time:

When you view an event you can see when it is, what it happens, the location, a map reference and a description. There is also an area where you can RSVP for an event to confirm your attendance or non-attendance: this is a great way of determining how many people are likely to show up to your event.

The way the LoCo directory works is to suck as much information out of Launchpad where possible about teams and then it builds in some of the other features (such as events) into the LoCo directory. This avoids duplication of data and uses Launchpad for key features such as access control and owner/admin information.

Great work, LoCo directory hackers! 🙂

Ladies and Gentlemen of the Internet, on **Tues 16th March** at **11am PST / 2pm EST / 6pm GMT** I will be doing a live [At Home With Jono Bacon](https://www.ustream.tv/channel/at-home-with-jono-bacon) videocast dedicated to the [Ubuntu Global Jam](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGlobalJam); the fantastic global event taking place from *26th – 28th March 2010* in which Ubuntu contributors get together in the same location to have fun and work on Ubuntu.

In the videocast I will talk about:

* What is the *Ubuntu Global Jam*?
* What are events like?
* How do you organize an event?
+ Q + A

This is a great opportunity to get the low-down on the *Ubuntu Global Jam* and how to get involved. Be there!

**[Watch the videocast live here!](https://www.ustream.tv/channel/at-home-with-jono-bacon)**