At XWiki, we build two open-source products used by thousands of organisations around the globe. Companies like Amazon and Lenovo trust the XWiki product to manage their knowledge and work better together. CryptPad provides end-to-end encrypted collaboration while keeping all data private. Apart from building products and applications, our teams also develop customisations and solutions to fit our clients' needs, offer support and cloud services, and work on innovative research projects with commercial partners and academia.

We care both about:

• What we build: scalable, extensible products and services that are privacy respectful, with no lock-in.
• How we work: we’ve been a remote-first company for the past 20 years; we value building open source software, transparency, diversity, and work/life balance.

Learning Goals

By the end of the internship you will have learned:

• How to work in an Open Source company and interact with a worldwide community
• How to integrate in a multidisciplinary team
• Best practices in technical writing and documentation structuring
• Technologies: Markdown, XML, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Velocity.
• Tools: Git, Jira, Maven, XWiki

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the improvement of XWiki documentation in English:
• write the XWiki Enterprise User Guide in English
• write the XWiki Enterprise Administration Guide in English
• write feature descriptions on XWiki.org
• manage the User and Administrator guide on XWiki.org
• Contribute to the XWiki documentation in French, if you know French as well.
• Ensure clarity, accuracy, and completeness of technical content.
• Collaborate with developers, product managers, and the community.
• Learn and apply best practices in technical writing and documentation structuring.

Skills & Technical requirements

• You are eager to learn how to use XWiki to write and publish content
• You're not afraid of asking questions, even when they look obvious
• You can speak and write fluently in English. French is a plus.
• You're eager to learn about new technology and understand how it works
• You can write short and detailed descriptions of how our features work
• You're self-motivated: you are able to deliver without being under close supervision
• You're independent: you can work effectively from a short set of directives

Training & Meetings

• Office orientation
• An introduction to the XWiki company
• An introduction to the XWiki open source project
• On the job training 
• Regular meetings with the mentors
• Access to internal knowledge base and trainings
• Final evaluation; assessment of the internship’s success

Duration

• The chosen candidate can expect a full-time internship during summer (flexible start date)
• The daily schedule: 8 h/day in the 08:00-20:00 bracket.

Payment & Benefits

• Paid internship
• Open plan office with fun activities (Table Football, WII / video games, board-games, etc.)
• Refreshments and fruits on the house
• Monthly team activities
• You will work on the latest generation of technical equipment
• Open and collaborative environment where your ideas are heard
• Casual dress code
• Flexible work schedule
• Work on an Open Source product and extensions that are used by users all over the world
• The majority of your work will be publicly available, so you can reference it in your portfolio
• Mentorship by experienced engineers that will help you develop your IT potential
• Possibility to join as a full time or part-time employee after the internship