Internship opportunity
About CoLang
The Institute on Collaborative Language Research, known as CoLang, is a biennial gathering for people to learn about language documentation, descriptive linguistics, and language revitalization. The Institute emphasizes community-based approaches to language revitalization and collaboration at all stages of this work — from designing documentation or teaching projects to activism or archiving materials for future use. CoLang aims to blur the lines between community and academia, learners and facilitators, and among areas of specialty. CoLang welcomes all people interested in community-based, collaborative language work.
About CoLang Web Committee
The CoLang Web Committee was established in 2020 to develop, manage, and maintain the digital presence of the CoLang Institute. The Committee is responsible for the public-facing website www.colanginstitute.org, and the internal collection and organization of organizing materials in the CoLang Repository. The Committee is responsible to the CoLang Advisory Council via the Colang Advisory Council’s Web Representative, and works closely with the Local Organizing Committee.
Fall 2023 CoLang Web Committee Intern
The CoLang Web Committee is accepting applications for a Fall 2023 Intern to support developing processes for collecting consent and digital Intellectual property descriptions for the upcoming 2024 CoLang. We are seeking applicants with experience or interest in open-source digital property, digital materials access, and familiarity with the field of Indigenous language reclamation.
CoLang Web Committee Internship Objectives
The goal of the internship shall be to provide support developing a materials intake process for the online materials repository.
Attend Web Committee Meetings as a liaison for the Local Organizing Committee
Collaborate with Local Organizing Committee to accurately describe Colang’s open-source digital publication interests and consent process on calls for workshops and registration forms
Draft guidelines for developing open-source materials, and present guidelines in an approachable way
Field questions and feedback on Colang’s open-source digital publication interests
Collaborate with the Web Committee to develop a material intake process
Areas of Competence
Archival intake
Consent gathering for open-source digital publication
Digital intellectual property
Indigenous communities
Indigenous Language Reclamation
Reporting, Compensation, and Credit
This is a fully remote online internship in collaboration with colleagues in EST, MST, and PST time zones. Intern shall report to the CoLang Web Committee. Intern shall receive $500 at the end of the three-month internship period, and expected to devote at least 33 hours to internship tasks.
The CoLang Web Committee welcomes students interested in taking an internship for school credit. Please reach out to your department to see if this is possible. This internship is open to those legally authorized to work in the United States. We are happy to work with any interested applicant to support their authorization process.
To Apply
Send a CV and cover letter addressing your competence to complete the objectives stated above to info@colanginstitute.org with the title “Fall 2023 CoLang Web Committee Intern Application” by 5pm EDT on June 19th, 2023.
