Are you a student of design, usability, human factors, or other HCI-related field? Are you interested in working on an open source project? For 10-15 hours a week between June 1 and August 31, you could work with an experienced usability mentor on a fun and interesting design project! An added bonus is the $1000 USD internship stipend at the end of the project.

The OpenUsability Season of Usability is a series of sponsored student projects to encourage students of usability, user-interface design, and interaction design to get involved with Free/Libre/Open-Source Software (FLOSS) projects. Inspired by Google’s Summer of Codeâ„¢, OpenUsability offers sponsored student projects. Other than the Google projects that address developers, they aim at students of usability, user-interface design, and interaction design. Students experience the interdisciplinary and collaborative development of user interface solutions in international software projects while getting into OSS development.

This year we are happy to support student opportunities from these open source projects:

• Amarok
• Drupal
• Gallery
• GeneMANIA
• GNOME
• Kadu
• KOrganizer
• OLM
• SemNotes
• Ubuntu

See the Projects page for more information on the projects and how to apply. Applications are due May 20 2009.

Questions about the projects or application process may be directed to students@openusability.org.

We would like to thank our sponsors, Google and Canonical, as well as our many mentoring organizations for making this Season of Usability possible.