It's here: the Google Highly Open Participation Contest
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source
TeamThe
Google Summer of Code program has been a joint labor of love
between Google and the open source community for the
past three years, and the results have been spectacular:
hundreds of college students have been introduced to open source software, thousands of people
across the globe have begun development together and millions of lines of open code have been
produced, 4 million last year alone. We've been particularly proud of this program and how
much it has helped the community and we've spent a lot of time thinking about ways we can
continue helping open source projects find even more contributors. Today, we're pleased to
announce the
Google Highly Open Participation Contest, our new effort to get
pre-university students involved in all aspects of open source development, from fixing bugs
to writing documentation and doing user experience research.
While
we're very excited about many aspects of the contest, the best part is that everyone can
participate. Contestants must meet the
eligibility requirements, but anyone interested in helping out can simply
suggest
a task to be included in the contest. Our contestants have a chance to win t-shirts,
cash prizes, and a visit the Googleplex for a day of technical talks, delicious food and a
photo with our very own
Stan T. Rex.
Want to learn more? Check out
the
contest FAQs and tell your favorite pre-college students to pick a task or two to
complete. You can always visit our
discussion group to get help or share your thoughts.
Update: Fixed the broken links.
