Angela Byron wrote:
GHOP: Google Contest. Week-long tasks (coding, documentation, or otherwise) that 13-18 year olds knock out of the park. See http://drupal.org/node/195913 for contest details.
Good news: These students are frickin' awesome. Check out our list of completed tasks so far: http://code.google.com/p/google-highly-open-participation-drupal/issues/list...
Bad news: We need *help* to maintain this momentum.
Ok, well. First, my sincere thanks to the handful of amazing people who heeded my cry for help and created some *excellent* task ideas at http://drupal.org/project/issues/ghop, as well as the team who's been helping with the ongoing GHOP administration/mentoring/reviewing/etc. With your efforts, we were able to add 5 new tasks in the past 48 hours (4 of which have since been claimed), with probably another 5 to come as soon as minor revisions are made. To the rest of you, I don't really know what else to do. I've tried asking for help on the mailing lists. I've tried asking for help on Drupal Planet. I've tried asking for help in IRC. I've tried RE-asking for help on the devel list. I've now tried asking for help on the front page of Drupal.org, as well. We have /tons/ of students who are literally chomping at the bit to work with the Drupal community, and snapping up tasks as quickly as we can make them. And we have /tons/ of stuff around here that needs doing and would make a great learning experience for a student. But yet only a tiny fraction of our community is stepping up to help join those two needs together. It's quite frustating, I have to say. :( We're now down to a whopping *8 available tasks* for students to choose from: http://opentouch.info/tmp/ghop/ghop-stats.html Plone has 70, MoinMoin has 50, and Joomla! and Plone have 35. I know where I would be focusing my energies if I were a student in this contest, and it wouldn't be with Drupal. This is a real shame. The results from the first two weeks of this program were absolutely phenomenal: http://drupal.org/node/200510 -Angie