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. Current stats are available at: http://groups.drupal.org/node/7569 Python is currently kicking everyone's ass in terms of tasks completed by their students. This is directly related to the amount of focus their reviewers are able to give. We have had the following tasks have been under review for > 24 hours and are *actively halting these students from taking on more tasks*, as well as likely creating sour feelings towards Drupal as a project for holding them back. *Reviews needed here ASAP please.* * Performance profile Drupal 6: http://drupal.org/node/196907 * User experience usability report: http://drupal.org/node/197221 * Drupal 6 Theme: http://drupal.org/node/197227 * Mockups for hard-to-use pages: http://drupal.org/node/197311 * Port Text CAPTCHA to 6.x: http://drupal.org/node/198598 * Display module memory usage: http://drupal.org/node/198053 For a full list of GHOP issues that need review at any given time (ideally this is always at zero), please see: http://drupal.org/project/issues/?text=GHOP&states=8 Drupal is also currently tied for *second fewest* open tasks available. This means that there's a far more likely chance of a student going to a project like Joomla! or MoinMoin that has a better task selection. Please help by creating additional, high-quality tasks. Everyone has "little" things they wish they had time to work on. Write them up as task ideas to http://drupal.org/node/add/project-issue/ghop as a "Task idea" according to the guidelines at http://code.google.com/p/google-highly-open-participation-drupal/wiki/HowToW.... Remember that tasks don't have to be just about coding (documentation, translation, usability, etc. are also on topic), although coding tasks _are_ popular. :) Thanks for your attention to this. If GHOP continues to go as well as it has, it looks like we'll gain some very valuable long-term contributors (and in fact, I think we already have). -Angie