threepalmtrees / project

Here you can find specifications and deadlines for the project module

Project module

Welcome to the project module!

This project module will simulate parts of a real working experience in a typical software company.

The next 6 weeks you will work for the company called the open-source factory. The open source factory is a company that works for free on various open-source projects that make the web a better place. You just got hired as an intern on the team, and your goal is to help the company achieve their dreams. In your six weeks at the company you will start at level 1 responsibility (limited responsibility), and based on your performance, you can grow in your responsibility level. The more responsibility levels you gain, the more complex things become.

---

Level 1. (limited responsibility)

When you start at a company as an intern or junior developer, you will typically start working on small issues on an existing product. The more senior members of the company have defined mostly what issues need to be fixed on an existing product, and will divide the issues to be fixed over different members of the team. You will work solo on an issue, and the more senior people and your colleagues (fellow students) will help you in how to approach the problem that needs to be solved.

Goal: Solve multiple issues assigned to you with well written quality code. Merge your code with the existing project.

Project: Open-source project managed directly by Open-Source Factory. (we have written the code of the project, therefore control the workflow completely)

---

Level 2. (intermediate responsibility)

You got promoted! You are now trusted to work for external clients, meaning open-source projects that are not built by the Open-source Factory. This means that your code needs the approval of external people in order to be merged! This means that there's more responsibility for you to make sure that you understand the issue and the product well. Since this is an external project, this means that you will need to do more research by yourself as your team might not have all the answers.

Goal: Solve multiple issues assigned to you with well written quality code. Get your merge approved by the community.

Project: External open-source project. The more stars the repository, the more credits earned.

---

Level 3. (professional responsibility)

Your bosses are very happy with you, and would like to hear what your ideas are about improving products. Instead of being told what issues to solve, you get to write a small proposal of a new feature for an existing open-source project. Then you will have to divide this new feature into smaller pieces (backlog items/issues) that need to be built. When you have done this, you can start building the feature by yourself, or together with teammates that are willing to participate on the project.

---

Important:

The rules:

• Your Goal in order to graduate: Get promoted to level 2 and solve at least two significant issues of an external open source project. Your teacher will decide what is significant.

• You are responsible for your own success in this project, and you are in charge of solving the issues in front of you. If you have problems, you ask questions to your teachers or fellow students. If you don't get the help you need there, you ask other teachers or HYF staff for help.

• Under no circumstances you will come on Sunday with the story that you had a problem and that you couldn't do anything because of that. If there is a problem, you will make steps to try to make the problem go away. We can help you find what steps those are, but doing nothing is unacceptable.

• Under no circumstances you will go home on Sunday without knowing what to do that following week. If your tasks are not clear, you make sure your teachers give you clear tasks.

---

Module goals:

• Learn to understand an existing codebase in a short period of time
• Get experience working on existing projects
• Get experience working on open-source projects
• Get familiar with the basics of project management with agile
• Become comfortable with reporting about your work and communicating within a team.

After this module we offer (technical) interview and cv training for those who are interested. The goal of these sessions are to:

• Get your CV and LinkedIn ready for when you are ready to go to interviews.
• Get an understanding of how (technical) interviews go in the Dutch job market.