Announcing The Google Highly Open Participation Contest

[Chris DiBona]

Hi All, I'm happy to pass this on from Leslie, who asked me to send this to
you. Any non-list questions can be directed to her lhospo at gmail.com account.
Thanks and enjoy! There are some very Useful links at the end of this
message....

Hello everyone,

We've just announced the Google Highly Open Participation Contest (GHOP),
our pilot effort to introduce pre-university students to open source
development.  Student contestants around the world can choose from a variety
of task types, from documentation and testing to bug fixes and user
experience research.  We've teamed up with ten open source projects for the
first instance of GHOP, with an eye to expanding our efforts if things go
well.

Most of your questions should be answered by our FAQs.  If not, feel free to
send your questions to the public contest mailing list.

We hope you're as excited about this new initiative as we are, and we're
also hoping you'd like to lend us a helping hand:

1) Suggest tasks:

Each participating open source project has written guidelines for community
contributed tasks.  If you know the perfect way a new contributor can help
out, please add them as task suggestions following the guidelines provided.

2) Provide mentorship:

We don't necessarily expect our contestants to know much about open source,
Netiquette and many of the other subtle nuances of geekery.  If you have
some spare time and a particular interest in one of the participating open
source projects, idle in their IRC channel to do air traffic control or
subscribe to their contest mailing list and answer questions.  If you'd like
to help with general air traffic control, please subscribe to the contest
discussion list.  Remember, these are younger folks, so be helpful and,
above all, patient.  RTFM is *right out* unless you've given several
pointers that went ignored.

3) Spread the word:

Whether you're subscribed to a particular mailing list where the members
would be interested in hearing about GHOP or know an incredibly bright kid
just down the block, we can use your help in letting folks know about the
contest.  Of course, practice good mailing list etiquette - the last thing
we want is for folks to feel spammed instead of inspired.

See you on the mailing list!

Useful Links:

Google Highly Open Participation Contest:
http://code.google.com/opensource/ghop/2007-8

You can find all ten participating open source projects listed here.

Contest FAQs:
htp://code.google.com/opensource/ghop/faqs.html

Contest General Mailing List:
http://groups.google.com/group/ghop-
discuss<http://groups.google.com/group/ghop-discuss>

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