27 March: fyi -- 3 month internship, France

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Internship opportunity
About Talend

Talend is the first company to provide open source software tools for the ETL market. The company's solutions break rank with the market by supplying open, innovative and more powerful software. Talend's software is distributed under open source license. The company's flagship product, Talend Open Studio, has been downloaded over 30,000 times in less than four months. Their objective is to reach 100,000 downloads by the end of June 2007. Talend has signed partnership agreements with key industry players, including MySQL (MySQL Network Certified Partner) and JasperSoft. With operations in France, the United States and China, the company provides support, training and consulting services for its solution. For more information, please visit www.talend.com.

Your Mission

We are seeking a motivated student, for a full time internship in France. The internship will involve the following mission:

Setting up Talend FAQ and Knowledge Base:

Reorg of Talend Forum
Linguistic QA and, where needed, rewriting of forum posts, in preparation to repurposing the Forum into a high quality-level FAQ and KB.
Definition of KB topics and categories (install, specific use cases, components...)
Grouping and cross-checking addressed topics into the defined categories
Lexical tagging of FAQ/KB entries and search tool
Definition of Talend FAQ/KB architecture (Most popular topics, Most recent posts, Search results...)
Tool assessment for technical implementation of the FAQ/KB
Development and golive

Skills

Native English with French proficiency or Bilingual French & English
Basic knowledge of php, java and/or Perl
Basic knowledge of database management

Extra skills (not necessary)

Advanced knowledge in php, java and/or perl
Advanced skills in database management
Experience in setting up a FAQ/Knowledge Base
Interest in Open Source software industry
Exposition to Business Intelligence and ETL

The qualified applicant will be member of the R&D team and will report
to Fabrice Bonan, R&D director at Talend, 5 rue du Mont-Valérien,
France. The position is based in Suresnes (near Paris,
France). Compensation is to be defined. This internship is for a
3-month long minimum duration and is to take place asap. Send
application materials (resume, cover mail) to esabot@talend.com.

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