[WSG] A Google contest for highschoolers that is very relevant to this list
We've been collaborating with Google on an extension to their successful Google Summer of Code program, producing the Google Highly Open Participation Contest. Aimed to illustrate to our next generation in the industry on the virtues of collaboration, open standards, and freedom of information, the contest has the lure of money, Google T-Shirts and grand prizes (paid trips to the Googleplex from anywhere in the world.). To get involved, students work on predetermined tasks for open source projects from now until early February, and a number of these tasks are intentionally web based, such as building widgets and skins/themes, testing a web application, or even demonstrating a project to a group of people. As an example, see the task list at; http://code.google.com/p/google-highly-open-participation-silverstripe/issues/list So far, building-a-theme tasks are slow to being taken up, despite them being very visible contributions to the project (i.e. their name will be forever attributed on their theme!). Since since these require a sound knowledge of HTML, CSS and design... hence my post on this list. So if people could let highschoolers in their midst know about the contest, that'd be awesome :) Overall info at; http://www.silverstripe.com/highschoolers-add-google-to-your-cv/ http://code.google.com/opensource/ghop/2007-8/ Siggy, SilverStripe open source web development platform *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
[WSG] A Google contest for highschoolers that is very relevant to this list
We've been collaborating with Google on an extension to their successful Google Summer of Code program, producing the Google Highly Open Participation Contest. Aimed to illustrate to our next generation in the industry on the virtues of collaboration, open standards, and freedom of information, the contest has the lure of money, Google T-Shirts and grand prizes (paid trips to the Googleplex from anywhere in the world.). To get involved, students work on predetermined tasks for open source projects from now until early February, and a number of these tasks are intentionally web based, such as building widgets and skins/themes, testing a web application, or even demonstrating a project to a group of people. As an example, see the task list at; http://code.google.com/p/google-highly-open-participation-silverstripe/issues/list So far, building-a-theme tasks are slow to being taken up, despite them being very visible contributions to the project (i.e. their name will be forever attributed on their theme!). Since since these require a sound knowledge of HTML, CSS and design... hence my post on this list. So if people could let highschoolers in their midst know about the contest, that'd be awesome :) Overall info at; http://www.silverstripe.com/highschoolers-add-google-to-your-cv/ http://code.google.com/opensource/ghop/2007-8/ Siggy, SilverStripe open source web development platform *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
