The contest is structured around "tasks" specified by several participating projects and covering areas like documentation, outreach, coding, testing, and training. The GHOP home page has a list of the projects, and all of the details for the PSF tasks are in the wiki in our Google Code project: google-highly-open-participation-psf.
How You Can Participate:
Each group has a limited number of tasks to contribute to the overall contest, and while we've posted several tasks already, each group also left space open for suggestions from the wider community (this is and open source project, after all!). If you have ideas for Python-related tasks, check out the guidelines for instructions on submitting them. We need community participation!
Speaking of which: Many of the contestants will be new to open source in general, and most probably won't have experience in the participating projects. They're going to need help from patient mentors to solve the tasks set before them. If you have time, and the inclination, join the ghop-python google group and watch for questions you can answer. Also keep an eye out for them on comp.lang.python or other forums where they may be going for assistance.
This is a really exciting project, and I'm looking forward to watching how things unfold over the next couple of months. It sounds a little cliched, but these kids are the next generation of open source developers. This is a great way to introduce them to open source and pass on the traditions of cooperation and teamwork that form the basis of the thriving community we have today.
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