Google Open Source Contest

We all know about last three Summer of Code programmers made by Google, and now it announced the Google Highly Open Participation Contest geared for youths.

Participants will become involved in following open source projects: Apache, Drupal, GNOME, Joomla!, MoinMoin, Mono, Moodle, Python, Plone and SilverStripe.

The contest is for pre-university students, such as high-school or a secondary school and under contestants under the age of 18 will need to have their parent or guardian’s consent to participate.

At the end of this contest, participants will receive a t-shirt and certificate for completing at least one task and $100 for every three tasks completed, up to a maximum of $500 per participant. Not that bad!

There will also be 10 Grand Prize winners, who will receive a trip to the Googleplex in Mountain View, California, as an award ceremony, for themselves and one parent or guardian.

Entries were opened on 27 of November and contestants can join up until 22nd January. The competition ends on 4th February and winners will be announced on February, 11.
Good luck!

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