Project Proposal Submission Template
Please use this template to submit your mentorship project proposal.
Proposal Submission Guidelines
- Active Project maintainers, active contributors and community members are welcome to submit an internship a mentorship project proposal for consideration. Those who submit the project proposals will serve in the mentor role.
- Multiple mentors supervising one intern mentee per project would be more desirable as this helps spread the mentoring workload and reduce the challenge of coverage caused by working remotely with an intern in mentees from a different time zone.
- The mentor(s) Mentors need to be familiar with knowledgeable about the scope, goals, and technical aspects of the project and is/are expected to directly supervise the hired will directly guide, supervise, and evaluate the mentee's technical work work for the duration of the mentorship.
The proposed project needs to be clearly scoped and structured to be suitable for an internship projectwith clear objectives and outcomes, serving as a springboard to onboard a new contributor into the community.
The outcome envisioned for the project can be accomplished under the mentor's guidance by a new contributor working ~15-20 hours a week for 24 weeks.
The project should be related to one of the current Hyperledger frameworks or toolsProjects or Labs or the Hyperledger ecosystem at large.
- The outcome of the project will benefit the existing Hyperledger frameworks/tools/Projects or Labs or advance the Hyperledger open source technical community's work at large.
The mentor(s) should be mentors are ready to be the sponsor of the internship mentorship project as a Hyperleger Hyperledger Lab if the project is not already part of a Hyperledger Project or Lab when the internship mentorship commences. This ensures that the project progress can be tracked and the project output can be publicly accessible to the community.
Proposal Review/Selection Process and Criteria
- The TSC forms a sub-committee to review all Hyperledger TOC reviews proposals and select a sub-set of projects for Hyperledger to sponsor.projects with technical (code, research, or documentation) focus, and the Hyperledger Foundation staff will review and select projects with business research focus.
- General selection criteria are:
- The selected proposals have clearly scoped learning objectives and outcomes that are suitable for one mentee, a student developer/researcher, to complete within 12 weeks if working full time or 24 weeks if working part time.
- The selected proposals will represent a nice mix of project difficulty levels. Some low, medium, and high difficulties.
- could serve as a springboard to onboard new contributors.
- The selected proposals can be accomplished, under the guidance of the mentors, by a new developer, researcher, or contributor within established program dates for mentee/mentor working period of 6 months when a mentee contributes on a part-time basis ~15-20 hours a week (for 2024 program year, the working period is from June to November). The selected proposals will maximize the diversity of the proposals, mentors, and mentees.
- The selected proposals should have a direct connection or relevance to an existing Hyperledger project or lab or ecosystem.
- The selected proposals will proposals will further increase the contributor /or maintainer base of the related Hyperledger project Project or Lab or labecosystem.
- The selected proposals are related to as many Hyperledger projects or lab as possible.
- The mentors of the selected proposals will represent a nice mix of experienced and new mentors.
- have the potential to maximize the diversity of the projects, mentors, and mentees.
- Multiple proposals can be accepted for Projects that complete the annual review process as Graduated and only one accepted proposal for any other Project, Labs, SIGs or any other community group with any exceptions determined by staffReview the current year program schedule including project proposal and selection period.