Help Drupal and Earn Prizes from Google Code-In
In a blog post today, Google announced the open source organisations accepted to Google Code-In 2010. Google Code-In is a Google sponsored program where they help open source organisations forward. Drupal is one of the organisations they have accepted together with other Web CMS such as Plone and WordPress.
Accepted Open Source Organisation:
- The Apertium Project
- The Battle for Wesnoth
- Debian Project
- Dragonfly BSD
- Drupal
- GNOME
- Haiku
- KDE
- LimeSurvey
- MoinMoin
- Mono Project
- OSUOSL
- Parrot Foundation and The Perl Foundation
- Plone Foundation
- RTEMS Project
- Sahana Software Foundation
- Tux4Kids
- VideoLAN
- WordPress
- WorldForge
Help Drupal and Earn Prizes
Any student around the world can join the program and participate. To do so you join up at the Google Code-In site. Then from November 22 you will be able to claim tasks to perform that the participating organisations have put up. These tasks are in the following categories:
- Code
- Documentation
- Outreach
- Quality assurance
- Research
- Training
- Translation
- User interface
Google predicts that each project will have tasks available in each of the above categories.
When you have completed a task, you will participate in a contest and be able to earn prizes. Unfortunately the official website has some problems right now and reporting Internal Server Errors. Therefor it is not clear what those prizes are right now.
Great Initiative
I think this is a great initiative by Google. Not only will it help many fantastic open source project, it will also introduce the open source world for todays students. Since mentoring is also included in this, it will certainly give the students a fantastic experience.
For Drupal, maybe the next merlinofchaos will be discovered, who knows? :)
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